therapy
English
Etymology
From New Latin therapīa, from Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía, “service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I serve, treat medically”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθɛɹ.ə.pi/; enPR: thĕrʹə-pē
Noun
therapy (countable and uncountable, plural therapies)
- Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
- 1885 November 1, James Nevins, “On the relations of lupus vulgaris to tuberculosis”, in Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, volume 3, number 11:
- […] second, its formidable features prompt the average physician at an early period to consult the dermatologist respecting its nature and therapy […]
- Specifically, psychotherapy.
- 1948, Harold B. Pepinsky, Diagnostic Categories in Clinical Counseling, page 3:
- As a methodology, it provides a useful framework for evaluating the outcomes of therapy.
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- Healing power or quality.
Hyponyms
- adjuvant therapy
- antitherapy
- apitherapy
- art therapy
- autohemotherapy
- autotherapy
- brachytherapy
- chemotherapy
- cobalt therapy
- conversion therapy
- cryotherapy
- ecotherapy
- electroconvulsive therapy
- electrotherapy
- 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
- radiation therapy
- radiotherapy
- reparative therapy
- retail therapy
- running therapy
- serotherapy
- shock therapy
- systemic therapy
- teletherapy
- theotherapy
- thought field therapy
- timeline therapy
- vinotherapy
- xylotherapy
- See also Thesaurus:therapy
Related terms
Translations
treatment of disease
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Verb
therapy (third-person singular simple present therapies, present participle therapying, simple past and past participle therapied)
- (transitive, rare) To treat with a therapy.
- 1998, Ursula Rüther, Paraneoplastic syndromes, page 5:
- As is the case for therapying ectopic ACTH production, very high serum cortisol levels necessitate adrenolytic therapy with o,p'DDD (mitotane), metopirone, or aminogluthetimide.
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- (intransitive, rare) To undergo a therapy.
- 1992, Talking Book Topics, page 35:
- Therapy has almost eliminated violence, and people are divided into groups — the "therapied" and the "un-therapied."
- 2002, Brynjulf Stige, Culture-centered music therapy, page 101:
- After a few years of talking about musicking, healthing, therapying, and so forth, most of us will have enough, I assume, and will not necessarily be in a new place.
- 2011, Richard Grayson, West Side Summers, page 5:
- In the mail were: $9 in orders for Eating at Arby's; a delightful New Wave story by Susan Mernit, who's finishing one novel and working on the next, all while adjuncting, therapying, and getting ready to divorce Spencer (though she doesn't know that yet); The Village Voice; a BC Alumni Association Board of Directors notice; and a xerox of a review of George's Modern Times.
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