Therapeutic vs Treatment - What's the difference?
therapeutic | treatment |
Of, or relating to therapy.
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
* Sir Thomas Browne
* Isaac Watts
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
(senseid)Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
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(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
As an adjective therapeutic
is of, or relating to therapy.As a noun treatment is
the process or manner of treating someone or something.therapeutic
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Alternative forms
* therapeutick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Therapeutic or curative physic.
- Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic , or the art of restoring it.
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Noun
- He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
- A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
- Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
- The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment .
- Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
- Accept such treatment as a swain affords.