Word Meanings - THERAPEUTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the Therapeutæ.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of THERAPEUTIC)

• Sanatory
• Curative
• sanative
• remedial
• therapeutic
• hygienic
• sanitary

Related words: (words related to THERAPEUTIC)

• SANITARY
  Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.
• REMEDIAL
  Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
• REMEDIALLY
  In a remedial manner.
• HYGIENICS
  The science of health; hygiene.
• HYGIENIC
  Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.
• THERAPEUTIC
  One of the Therapeutæ.
• THERAPEUTICS
  That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.
• THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL
  Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and
• SANATORY
  Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded.
• SANATIVE
  Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n.
• CURATIVE
  Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot.
• INSANITARY
  Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
• ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
  The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent.
• HYDROTHERAPEUTICS
  A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.
• PSYCHOTHERAPEUTICS
  The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.