| DRQ | discomfort relief quotient |
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| RMUI | relief medication unit index |
| SRD | service-related disability; Society for the Relief of Distress; Society for the Right to Die; sodium... |
| UNDRO | United Nations Disaster Relief Organization |
| WMR | work metabolic rate; World Medical Relief |
| therapeutic angiography | Use of angiographic catheters that have been modified to reduce or increase regional blood flow, or to deliver medicinal agents; interventional therapeutic angiography. See: angioplasty, balloon catheter, interventional angiography. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| therapeutic community | Psychotherapeutic technique which emphasizes socioenvironmental and interpersonal influences in the resocialization and rehabilitation of the patient. The setting is usually a hospital unit or ward in which professional and nonprofessional staff interact with the patients. (12 Dec 1998) |
| therapeutic crisis | A turning point leading to positive or negative change in psychiatric treatment. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic dose | The quantity of any substance required to effect the cure of a disease or that will correct the manifestations of a deficiency of a particular factor in the diet, effective dose used with therapeutically applied compounds. Synonym: therapeutic dose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic electrode | A small electrode whose exciting effect is used to stimulate or record potentials from a localised area. Synonym: exciting electrode, localizing electrode, therapeutic electrode. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic equivalency | The relative equivalency in the efficacy of different modes of treatment of a disease, most often used to compare the efficacy of different pharmaceuticals to treat a given disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
| therapeutic fever | Treatment of disease by inducing an artificial fever in the patient. Synonym: therapeutic fever. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic group | Any group of patients meeting together for mutual psychotherapeutic, personal development, and life change goals. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic incompatibility | A form of incompatibility in which the substances in a mixture exert opposing physiologic actions. Synonym: therapeutic incompatibility. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic index | The ratio of LD50 to ED50, used in quantitative comparison of drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic iridectomy | An iridectomy performed for the prevention or cure of disease, e.g., angle-closure glaucoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic malaria | Intentionally induced malaria, formerly used against neurosyphilis and certain other paralytic diseases; the mechanism is thought to be immunological, with Plasmodium antibodies cross-reacting against the spirochetes or other agents. (05 Mar 2000) |
| therapeutic pessimism | A disbelief in the curative virtues of remedies in general and especially of drugs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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) |