therapy

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

   “inclined bed therapy”

   “It will be seen that we are introducing to our readers the subject of Kinesitherapy, in common with other therapies, and it is very proper that we should do so.”

   “[…] second, its formidable features prompt the average physician at an early period to consult the dermatologist respecting its nature and therapy […]”

   “Lahmann's unprecedented success proved beyond doubt the correctness of his teachings and the fallacy of the germ theory of disease, vaccinations and serum therapy.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

   “As a methodology, it provides a useful framework for evaluating the outcomes of therapy.”

   “The existential approach to therapy is philosophical, involving exploration of what it means to be alive.”

   “Because it is often confused with psychoanalysis, psychodynamics has at times been considered an outdated and outmoded approach to therapy.”

3. (countable, uncountable)Healing power or quality.

verb

1. (rare, transitive)To treat with a therapy.

   “As is the case for therapying ectopic ACTH production, very high serum cortisol levels necessitate adrenolytic therapy with o,p'DDD (mitotane), metopirone, or aminogluthetimide.”

   “There was no cytogenetic damage to the therapied or non-therapied regions in the buccal mucosa cells, as determined cytomorphologically.”

   “I was therapying her for some gene-based subroutine screwups that prevented easeful sexuality.”

2. (intransitive, rare)To undergo a therapy.

   “Therapy has almost eliminated violence, and people are divided into groups — the "therapied" and the "un-therapied."”

   “After a few years of talking about musicking, healthing, therapying, and so forth, most of us will have enough, I assume, and will not necessarily be in a new place.”

   “In the mail were: $9 in orders for Eating at Arby's; a delightful New Wave story by Susan Mernit, who's finishing one novel and working on the next, all while adjuncting, therapying, and getting ready to divorce Spencer (though she doesn't know that yet); The Village Voice; a BC Alumni Association Board of Directors notice; and a xerox of a review of George's Modern Times.”