Therapy vs Physical - What's the difference?
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Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
Healing power or quality.
To treat with a therapy.
To undergo a therapy.
Having to do with the body.
Having to do with the material world.
* John Stuart Mill
* Macaulay
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Involving bodily force.
Having to do with physics.
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(obsolete) Relating to physic, or medicine; medicinal; curative; also, cathartic; purgative.
* Sir T. North
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between therapy and physical
is that therapy is treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental while physical is physical examination.As a verb therapy
is to treat with a therapy.As an adjective physical is
having to do with the body.therapy
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* See alsoDerived 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 * vinotherapyVerb
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* English homographic denominal verbsphysical
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(wikipedia physical)Adjective
(en adjective)- Labour, in the physical world, is employed in putting objects in motion.
- A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force.
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- Physical herbs.
- Is Brutus sick? and is it physical / To walk unbraced, and suck up the humours / Of the dank morning?