| serum therapy | Treatment of an infectious disease by injection of an antitoxin or serum containing specific antibody. Synonym: serum therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| shock therapy | See: electroshock therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| hyperbaric oxygen therapy | <physiology> A pressurised chamber that allows for the delivery of oxygen in higher concentrations for therapeutic benefit. Useful in the treatment of severe burns, peripheral vascular disease, carbon monoxide poisoning and decompression illness. (04 Mar 1998) |
| social network therapy | A type of therapy involving the assembling of all persons emotionally or functionally important to the patient for the purpose of affecting behavioural change in the patient. (05 Mar 2000) |
| social therapy | <psychiatry> A psychiatric rehabilitative therapy to improve a patient's social functioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| socioenvironmental therapy | Therapy whose primary emphasis is on the physical and social structuring of the environment to promote interpersonal relationships which will be influential in reducing behavioural disturbances of patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| solar therapy | Treatment of disease by exposure to sunlight. (05 Mar 2000) |
| somatic cell gene therapy | The repair or replacement of a defective gene within somatic tissue. (09 Oct 1997) |
| specific therapy | Therapy aimed at the cause(s) of a disease process, as opposed to symptomatic therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| neutron capture therapy | A technique for the treatment of neoplasms in which an isotope is introduced into target cells followed by irradiation with thermal neutrons. (12 Dec 1998) |
| nondirective therapy | A procedure in which the therapist refrains from directing the client, but instead reflects back to the client what the latter has said, sometimes restating the client's remark. (12 Dec 1998) |
| substitution therapy | Replacement therapy, particularly when replacement is not physiological but entails administration of a substitute. (05 Mar 2000) |
| substitutive therapy | That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy. Origin: Gr. Other + suffering, to suffer: cf. G. Allopathie, F. Allopathie. See Pathos. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| non-specific therapy | The injection of a foreign protein, typhoid vaccine, etc., to induce fever in the treatment of certain diseases, especially those of a parasyphilitic nature. Synonym: phlogotherapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dance therapy | The use of dancing for therapeutic purposes. (12 Dec 1998) |