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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
therapeutics
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All high cost drugs are already rationed in hospitals through drug and therapeutics committees and clinical pharmacy services.
▪ Homoeopathy is not a complete system of medicine but a system of therapeutics - that is, a system of administering drugs.
▪ Lots of therapeutics in a carnival.
▪ The study was conducted in a subregional radiotherapy centre and an academic department of gastroenterology and therapeutics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
therapeutics

pathology \pa*thol"o*gy\ (-j[y^]), n.; pl. pathologies (-j[i^]z). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering, disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.]

  1. (Med.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

    Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.

  2. (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.

    Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body.
    --Virchow.

Wiktionary
therapeutics

n. (context medicine English) The treatment of disease; the science of healing.

WordNet
therapeutics

n. branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease

Usage examples of "therapeutics".

The experiments upon his patients were frankly reported by himself, and were published in his well-known work on Therapeutics.