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therapeutics
noun
Definition
The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of disease; therapeutic agents.
In a sentence
“Advances in cancer therapeutics have extended the lives of millions of patients worldwide.”
Synonyms
treatmenttherapymedical intervention
Common collocations
- drug therapeutics
- novel therapeutics
- advances in therapeutics
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