therapy

Definition

Examples

After the accident, he attended physical therapy twice a week for months.

Word Family

Synonyms

• treatmentcare provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
• remedyact of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
• rehabilitationthe restoration of someone to a useful place in society

Collocations

• Easy speech therapy
  describing speech therapy (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)
• Medium occupational therapy coverage under employee benefits
  describing occupational therapy coverage under employee benefits (of or relating to the activity or business for which you are trained)
• Hard gene therapy clinical trial protocols regulated by FDA
  describing gene therapy clinical trial protocols regulated by FDA ((genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity)
• Very Hard retail therapy used as an unhealthy coping mechanism
  to retail therapy used as an unhealthy coping mechanism, meaning to be sold at the retail level