THERAPY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does therapy mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THERAPY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

heat therapy gave the best relief

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

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

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

megavitamin therapy (therapy based on a theory that taking very large doses of vitamins will prevent or cure physical or psychological disorders)

thrombolytic therapy (therapy consisting of the administration of a pharmacological agent to cause thrombolysis of an abnormal blood clot)

thermotherapy (the use of heat to treat a disease or disorder; heating pads or hot compresses or hot-water bottles are used to promote circulation in peripheral vascular disease or to relax tense muscles)

refrigeration (deliberately lowering the body's temperature for therapeutic purposes)

speech therapy (any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech)

shock therapy; shock treatment (treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions)

actinotherapy; irradiation; radiation; radiation therapy; radiotherapy ((medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance)

psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)

botanical medicine; herbal therapy; phytotherapy (the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet))

physiatrics; physical therapy; physiotherapy (therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities)

occupational therapy (therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions)

aromatherapy (the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage)

medication (the act of treating with medicines or remedies)

electromotive drug administration; EMDA; ionic medication; iontophoresis; iontotherapy (therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues)

inflation therapy (therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air)

infrared therapy (the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to a particular area of the body)

immunotherapy (therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system)

hormone-replacement therapy; hormone replacement therapy; HRT (hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis)

heliotherapy; insolation (therapeutic exposure to sunlight)

electric healing; electrical healing; electrotherapy; galvanism (the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis))

correction (treatment of a specific defect)

chemotherapy (the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness))

Derivation:

therapeutic; therapeutical (relating to or involved in therapy)

therapist (a person skilled in a particular type of therapy)

 Context examples 

The research suggests that a drug or gene therapy that could reduce APOE and HSPG binding has the potential to be a new way to treat or prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

(Unique case of disease resistance reveals possible Alzheimer’s treatment, National Institutes of Health)

It can be used alone or with other therapy in treating melanoma.

(Melanoma vaccine, NCI Dictionary)

Seven patients with the condition were given therapies that are known to reduce inflammation.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)

Cumulative incidence of liver cancer in the group treated with aspirin therapy was significantly lower than that in the untreated group in five years.

(An Aspirin A Day Keep Liver Cancer Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"βGBP is effective against the most aggressive colorectal cancer cells and a wide range of other cancer cells equally unresponsive to current therapies.

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

It usually responds to induction therapy.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Mutated NPM1, NCI Thesaurus)

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with radiation therapy to treat childhood Hodgkin lymphoma.

(ABVE, NCI Dictionary)

It is a type of gene therapy.

(ACN53, NCI Dictionary)

The determination of the amount of the inhibition of blood coagulation in response to anticoagulant therapies.

(Activated Coagulation Time, NCI Thesaurus)

This type of AML frequently responds to aggressive therapy.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Maturation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)