THERAPEUTICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does therapeutically mean? 

• THERAPEUTICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb THERAPEUTICALLY has 1 sense:

1. for therapeutic purposes

  Familiarity information: THERAPEUTICALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THERAPEUTICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

For therapeutic purposes

Pertainym:

therapeutic (tending to cure or restore to health)

 Context examples 

An adverse effect of a drug used therapeutically or diagnostically.

(Drug Toxicity, NCI Thesaurus)

It is found primarily in gelatin and silk fibroin and used therapeutically as a nutrient.

(Glycine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The anti-inflammatory actions of IL-10 may be therapeutically useful either directly or through modulation of HO-1 activity.

(IL10 Anti-inflammatory Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

But they cautioned that more studies are needed, particularly in humans, to validate these findings and especially before experimenting with hypocretin therapeutically.

(Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Disintegrant excipient is a therapeutically inactive ingredient of a solid pharmaceutical dosage form that helps the form to dissolve within the gastrointestinal tract to ensure full release of the pharmaceutically active material.

(Disintegrant Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

Therapeutically inactive substance that helps to make pills hold their shape upon compression and improve compressibility properties in general.

(Compression Aid Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

Therapeutically inactive natural or synthetic ingredient(s) of pharmaceutical dosage form used to improve drug palatability.

(Flavor Excipient, NCI Thesaurus)

These compounds can be administered topically or systemically and have been used therapeutically to treat psoriasis and various types of neoplasms.

(Photosensitizing agent, NCI Thesaurus)

Meglitinide represents the basic structure of the meglitinide-type agents and is not used therapeutically.

(Meglitinide, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists exposed colorectal cancer cells to the 'lowest therapeutically effective dose of βGBP that induces apoptosis', or 'cell suicide'.

(Molecule in Immune System Able to Trigger 'Suicide' of Cancerous Tumors, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)