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THERAPEUTICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does therapeutics mean? 

THERAPEUTICS (noun)
  The noun THERAPEUTICS has 1 sense:

1. branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of diseaseplay

  Familiarity information: THERAPEUTICS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


THERAPEUTICS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("therapeutics" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)


 Context examples 


Electroacupuncture and specific therapeutics that mimic dopamine are complementary strategies for the treatment of sepsis.

(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)

By targeting the newly-identified link between amyloid-beta and cholesterol, it could be possible to design therapeutics which maintain cholesterol homeostasis, and consequently amyloid-beta homeostasis, in the brain.

(Brain cholesterol associated with increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, University of Cambridge)

The achievement is a major step toward creating novel therapeutics and nanomaterials.

(Expanding the Genetic Alphabet, NIH)

A clinical trial designed to evaluate the development, safety, and efficacy of vaccines and therapeutics directed against AIDS.

(AIDS Clinical Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Clinical trials related to the development of vaccines and therapeutics directed against AIDS-related malignancies.

(AIDS, Clinical Trials on Patients with AIDS-Related Malignancies, NCI Thesaurus)

Technologies that utilize aptamers for biosensors, diagnostic assays, therapeutics, etc.

(Aptamer Technology, NCI Thesaurus)

These incentives promote the development and manufacturing of such therapeutics, which otherwise might not be profitable because of the small potential market.

(Orphan Drug, NCI Thesaurus)

The medical specialty that pertains to the anatomy, physiology, pathology, symptomatology, and therapeutics related to the blood and blood-forming tissues.

(Hematology, Other, NCI Thesaurus)

Loss of p53 activity leads to sensitization of cancer cells to other therapeutics.

(EL625, NCI Thesaurus)

When an individual has revolutionised therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain-matter, conventional forms are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)



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