therapeutic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: therapeutic	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for therapeutic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
therapeutic adj tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets" Synonym(s): curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to criminality" Synonym(s): therapeutic, therapeutical n a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain Synonym(s): remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Therapeutic \Ther`apeu"tic\, Therapeutical \Ther`apeu"tical\, a. [F. th[82]rapeutique, Gr. [?], from [?] attendant, servant, [?] to serve, take care of, treat medically, [?] attendant, servant.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. [bd]Therapeutic* or curative physic.[b8] --Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into [bd]prophylactic,[b8] or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. --I. Watts.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n. One of the Therapeut[91].