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therapy
Universal Words
noun (plural therapies)
1 [U,C] the treatment of a physical problem or an illness:
Most patients undergo some sort of drug therapy (= treatment using drugs) for leukaemia. * alternative / complementary / natural therapies (= treatments that do not use traditional drugs) * (figurative) The next stage in the economic shock therapy will be freeing energy prices.
2 [U] = PSYCHOTHERAPY:
a therapy group / session * She's in therapy.
seealsoCHEMOTHERAPY, GROUPTHERAPY, HORMONEREPLACEMENTTHERAPY, OCCUPATIONALTHERAPY, PHYSIOTHERAPY, RADIOTHERAPY, SPEECHTHERAPY
