THERAPY

therapy

(noun) (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.); “the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury”; “he tried every treatment the doctors suggested”; “heat therapy gave the best relief”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

therapy (countable and uncountable, plural therapies)

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

Specifically, psychotherapy.

Healing power or quality.

Hyponyms

• adjuvant therapy

• antitherapy

• apitherapy

• art therapy

• autotherapy

• autohemotherapy

• brachytherapy

• chemotherapy

• cobalt therapy

• conversion therapy

• couples therapy

• cryotherapy

• ecotherapy

• electroconvulsive therapy

• electrotherapy

• family therapy

• gene therapy

• gerontotherapy

• gestalt therapy

• heliotherapy

• hypnotherapy

• immunotherapy

• logotherapy

• magnotherapy

• monotherapy

• multidrug therapy

• music therapy

• neoadjuvant therapy

• oligotherapy

• oxygen therapy

• ozone therapy

• pedotherapy

• pharmacotherapy

• phototherapy

• physical therapy

• physiotherapy

• primal therapy

• psychotherapy

• radiotherapy

• radiation therapy

• reparative therapy

• retail therapy

• running therapy

• serotherapy

• shock therapy

• systemic therapy

• teletherapy

• theotherapy

• thought field therapy

• timeline therapy

• vinotherapy

• xylotherapy

• See also therapy

Verb

therapy (third-person singular simple present therapies, present participle therapying, simple past and past participle therapied)

(transitive, rare) To treat with a therapy.

(intransitive, rare) To undergo a therapy.

Anagrams

• prayeth

Source: Wiktionary


Ther"a*py, n. Etym: [Gr.

Definition: Therapeutics.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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