| therapeutic pessimism | A disbelief in the curative virtues of remedies in general and especially of drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| therapeutic pneumothorax | Pneumothorax designed to create some pulmonary parenchymal collapse, diaphragmatic immobilization, or both. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic ratio | The ratio of the maximally tolerated dose of a drug to the minimal curative or effective dose; LD50 divided by ED50. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic touch | The placing of the hands of the healer upon the person to be cured. (12 Dec 1998) |
| therapeutic vaccine | An injected therapy consisting of synthetic HIV antigen (for example, gp160) that is administered to people who already have HIV It is supposed to heighten and broaden the immune response to HIV, helping to halt disease progression. (09 Oct 1997) |
| therapeutical | <medicine> Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." "Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it." (I. Watts) Origin: F. Therapeutique, Gr, from attendant, servant, to serve, take care of, treat medically, attendant, servant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| therapeutics | That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. Origin: Cf. F. Therapeutique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| therapeutist | One skilled in therapeutics. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapia | Synonym: therapy. Synonym: therapeutics. Origin: L. Fr. G. Therapeia, therapy (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapia magna sterilisans | Ehrlich's concept that an infectious disease, especially one of protozoal origin, can be cured by one large dose of a suitable remedy, large enough to sterilise all the tissues and to destroy the microorganism contained therein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapist | One professionally trained and/or skilled in the practice of a particular type of therapy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapy | The treatment of disease, therapeutics. Origin: Gr. Therapeia = service done to the sick (18 Nov 1997) |
| therapy, computer-assisted | Computer systems utilised as adjuncts in the treatment of disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| therapy, gene | Insertion of normal DNA directly into cells to correct a genetic defect. Gene therapy is the treatment of disease by replacing, altering, or supplementing a gene responsible for the disease. In gene therapy for cancer, for example, researchers are trying to bolster the body's natural capacity to combat cancer and make the tumour more sensitive to other kinds of therapy. Gene therapy, still in its early stages, holds great promise for the treatment of many diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
| there | 1. In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man, both bound together." "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." (Ge. Ii. 8) In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here." . 2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc, regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. "The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy." (Shak) 3. To or into that place; thither. "The rarest that e'er came there." (Shak) There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. "A knight there was, and that a worthy man." (Chaucer) "There is a path which no fowl knoweth." (Job xxviii. 7) "Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced." (Locke) "There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue." (Suckling) There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. There was formerly used in the sense of where. "Spend their good there it is reasonable." (Chaucer) Here and there, in one place and another. Synonym: See Thither. Origin: OE. Ther, AS. Oar; akin to D. Daar, G. Da, OHG. Dar, Sw. & Dan. Der, Icel. & Goth. Oar, Skr. Tarhi then, and E. That. 184. See That. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |