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Adjective: therapeutic  `the-ru'pyoo-tik
  1. Tending to cure or restore to health
    "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
    - curative, healing, alterative, remedial, sanative, sanatory
     
  2. Relating to or involved in therapy
    "therapeutic approach to criminality"
    - therapeutical
Noun: therapeutic  `the-ru'pyoo-tik
  1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieves pain
    - remedy, curative, cure

Derived forms: therapeutics

See also: healthful, therapeutically, therapy

Type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine

Part of: intervention, treatment

Encyclopedia: Therapeutic