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Concept information
Preferred term
therapeutics
Type
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Topic
Definition
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Procedures concerned with the remedial treatment or prevention of diseases.
Source: Medical Subject Headings
Type: Concept definition
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- alternative medicine
- analgesia
- anesthesia
- anti-HIV therapy
- blood transfusion
- cancer therapy
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- chemosensitization
- contraception
- diet therapy
- dosage
- drug delivery systems
- drug therapy
- first aid
- gene therapy
- group therapy
- hemodialysis
- immunotherapy
- lithotripsy
- magnetic therapy
- massage
- medical treatment
- occupational therapy
- phage therapy
- physical therapy
- phytotherapy
- plasmapheresis
- precision medicine
- psychotherapy
- radiotherapy
- rehabilitation (people)
- sedation
- surgery
- therapeutic irrigation
- thermotherapy
- topical therapy
- wound treatment
Synonyms
- therapeutic effect
- therapy
In other languages
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Spanish
URI
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/1019
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