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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, therapeutic]
    2: relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to
       criminality" [syn: therapeutic, therapeutical]
    n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
         [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or
         the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the
         art of restoring it.                     --I. Watts.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n.
   One of the Therapeutae.
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Thesaurus Results for Therapeutic:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adjuvant, aidful, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, conducive, constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, furthersome, good for, healing, healthy, helpful, iatric, medical, medicative, medicinal, positive, profitable, remedial, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, theriac, useful
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