THERAPEUTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does therapeutic mean? 

• THERAPEUTIC (noun)
  The noun THERAPEUTIC has 1 sense:

1. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

  Familiarity information: THERAPEUTIC used as a noun is very rare.

• THERAPEUTIC (adjective)
  The adjective THERAPEUTIC has 2 senses:

1. tending to cure or restore to health

2. relating to or involved in therapy

  Familiarity information: THERAPEUTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THERAPEUTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic

Hypernyms ("therapeutic" is a kind of...):

medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "therapeutic"):

acoustic (a remedy for hearing loss or deafness)

antidote; counterpoison (a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison)

emetic; nauseant; vomit; vomitive (a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting)

lenitive (remedy that eases pain and discomfort)

application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)

magic bullet (a remedy (drug or therapy or preventive) that cures or prevents a disease)

balm; ointment; salve; unction; unguent (semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation)

alleviant; alleviator; palliative (remedy that alleviates pain without curing)

catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea (hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists)

preventative; preventive; prophylactic (remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease)

Holonyms ("therapeutic" is a part of...):

intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))

• THERAPEUTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tending to cure or restore to health

Synonyms:

alterative; curative; healing; remedial; sanative; therapeutic

Context example:

therapeutic diets

Similar:

healthful (conducive to good health of body or mind)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or involved in therapy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

therapeutic; therapeutical

Context example:

therapeutic approach to criminality

Pertainym:

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

Derivation:

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

 Context examples 

It is a type of therapeutic insulin.

(Apidra, NCI Dictionary)

The researchers explored preserving T cells’ stemness with high potassium levels for therapeutic use.

(Harnessing T-cell “stemness” could enhance cancer immunotherapy, National Institutes of Health)

A therapeutic regimen that uses synthetic compounds or natural substances to prevent the development of new blood vessels.

(Antiangiogenesis Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

A specific manner, characteristic, pattern of application or the employment of, any therapeutic agent or method of treatment, especially involving the physical treatment of a condition.

(Modality, NCI Thesaurus)

Therapeutic hormones that have a non-specific classification.

(Miscellaneous Hormone Agent, NCI Thesaurus)

In this regard, the focus of this research has been to assess a therapeutic option that is effective for severe cases of deficiencies in CoQ10.

(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)

These are being studied for therapeutic and research use.

(Miniantibody, NCI Thesaurus)

The CBD amounts administered were within what is considered a therapeutic range for several medical conditions in humans.

(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)

An oligoclonal therapeutic composed of three fully human monoclonal antibodies targeting epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR or ErbB1), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anti-EGFR Monoclonal Antibody Mixture MM-151, NCI Thesaurus)

NGF plays a role in the repair, regeneration, and protection of neurons, and as such could serve as a therapeutic agent in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.

(Nerve Growth Factor Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)