therapy
pronunciation
How to pronounce therapy in British English:
UK [ˈθerəpi]
How to pronounce therapy in American English:
US [ˈθerəpi]
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- Noun:
- (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)
Word Origin
- therapy
- therapy: [19] Greek théraps denoted an ‘attendant’. From it was derived the verb therapeúein ‘attend, administer treatment to’, which itself produced two further derivatives: therapeíā ‘treatment’, which gave English therapy, and therapeutés ‘person who administers treatment’, source of the adjective therapeutikós, from which English gets therapeutic [16].
- therapy (n.)
- 1846, "medical treatment of disease," from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia "curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service," from therapeuein "to cure, treat medically," literally "attend, do service, take care of" (see therapeutic).
Example
- 1. And yet that is partly how cognitive therapy works .
- 2. Most work in gene therapy is centred on cancer .
- 3. Is long-term therapy too expensive ?
- 4. Have you ever had therapy ?
- 5. This was purely as therapy .