therapy

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeia, “service, medical treatment”), from θεραπεύω (therapeuō, “I serve, treat medically”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈθɛ.ɹə.pi/
• (US) enPR: thĕrʹə-pē

Noun

therapy (plural therapies)

1. Treatment of disease or disability, physical or mental.
2. Healing power or quality.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:therapy

Derived terms

Derived terms

adjuvant therapy antitherapy apitherapy art therapy autotherapy brachytherapy chemotherapy cobalt therapy conversion therapy cryotherapy ecotherapy electroconvulsive therapy electrotherapy gene therapy gestalt therapy heliotherapy hypnotherapy immunotherapy logotherapy magno-therapy

monotherapy multidrug therapy music therapy neoadjuvant therapy oligotherapy oxygen therapy physical therapy physiotherapy primal therapy psychotherapy radiotherapy radiation therapy reparative therapy retail therapy running therapy shock therapy systemic therapy teletherapy

Related terms

• therapeutic
• therapeutical
• therapist

Translations

treatment of disease

• Afrikaans: terapie (af)
• Arabic: علاج (ar) (ʿilāj) m
• Catalan: teràpia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 療法 (cmn), 疗法 (cmn) (liáofǎ)

• Czech: léčba (cs) f, terapie (cs) f
• Danish: terapi (da), behandling (da)
• Dutch: therapie (nl)
• Esperanto: terapio (eo)
• Finnish: hoito (fi), terapia (fi),
• French: thérapie (fr)

• German: Therapie (de) f
• Greek: θεραπεία (el) (therapeía) f
• Ido: terapio (io)
• Italian: terapia (it)
• Japanese: 療法 (ja) (りょうほう, ryōhō), 治療 (ja) (ちりょう, chiryō), 治癒 (ja) (ちゆ, chiyu)
• Polish: terapia (pl) f
• Russian: терапия (ru) (terapíja) f, лечение (ru) (lečénije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: teiripe (gd) f
• Swedish: terapi (sv) c
• Turkish: tedavi (tr), terapi (tr)

healing power

• Finnish: hoito, hoitava vaikutus
• Greek: θεραπεία (therapeia)

• Japanese: 治癒力 (ja)

Verb

therapy (third-person singular simple present therapies, present participle therapying, simple past and past participle therapied)

1. (transitive) To treat with a therapy.
2. (intransitive) To undergo a therapy.

Anagrams

• prayeth