Yahoo Canada Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   therapeutic

   /ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to the healing of disease: "diagnostic and therapeutic facilities"
   • ▪ administered or applied for reasons of health: "a therapeutic shampoo"
   • ▪ having a good effect on the body or mind; contributing to a sense of well-being: "a therapeutic silence"

   noun

   • 1. the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease and the action of remedial agents.
   • 2. a treatment, therapy, or drug: "current therapeutics for asthma"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: via modern Latin from Greek therapeutikos, from therapeuein ‘minister to, treat medically’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. therapeutical adjective
   • 2. therapeutically adverb

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • T

     1

   • H

     4

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • U

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points