Found 2 items, similar to therapeutic.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: therapeutic therapeutic adj 1: tending to cure or restore to health; “curative powers of herbal remedies”; “her gentle healing hand”; “remedial surgery”; “a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air”; “a therapeutic agent”; “therapeutic diets” [syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative] 2: relating to or involved in therapy; “therapeutic approach to criminality” [syn: therapeutical]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Therapeutic Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, Therapeutical \Ther`a*peu"tic*al\, a. [F. th['e]rapeutique, Gr. ?, from ? attendant, servant, ? to serve, take care of, treat medically, ? attendant, servant.] (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. “Therapeutic or curative physic.” --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] Medicine is justly distributed into “prophylactic,” or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster] Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n. One of the Therapeut[ae]. [1913 Webster]