As nouns the difference between prophylaxis and therapy
is that prophylaxis is (medicine) prevention of, or protective treatment for disease while therapy is treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
As a verb therapy is
to treat with a therapy.
prophylaxis
Noun
(prophylaxes)
(medicine) Prevention of, or protective treatment for disease.
(chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.
Derived terms
* prophylactic
References
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therapy
English
Noun
(therapies)
Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
Healing power or quality.
Hyponyms
* See also
Derived terms
* adjuvant therapy
* antitherapy
* apitherapy
* art therapy
* autotherapy
* autohemotherapy
* brachytherapy
* chemotherapy
* cobalt therapy
* conversion therapy
* cryotherapy
* ecotherapy
* electroconvulsive therapy
* electrotherapy
* gene therapy
* gestalt therapy
* heliotherapy
* hypnotherapy
* immunotherapy
* logotherapy
* magnotherapy
* monotherapy
* multidrug therapy
* music therapy
* neoadjuvant therapy
* oligotherapy
* oxygen therapy
* ozone therapy
* physical therapy
* physiotherapy
* primal therapy
* psychotherapy
* radiotherapy
* radiation therapy
* reparative therapy
* retail therapy
* running therapy
* serotherapy
* shock therapy
* systemic therapy
* teletherapy
* theotherapy
* thought field therapy
* timeline therapy
* vinotherapy
Related terms
* therapeutic
* therapeutical
* therapist
Verb
To treat with a therapy.
To undergo a therapy.
