terapèutic
Terapèutic is a Catalan adjective that describes anything related to therapy or to treatment intended to relieve, cure, or prevent a disease or condition. In English, the closest equivalent is therapeutic. In medical and health contexts, terapèutic is used to characterize interventions, medications, or activities designed to promote healing or symptom relief, for example tractament terapèutic (therapeutic treatment), efectes terapèutics (therapeutic effects), or intervenció terapèutica (therapeutic intervention).
Etymology traces terapèutic to the Greek therapeutikos, through Latin therapeuticus and, in some Romance languages, via
Usage notes: terapèutic agrees with the noun it modifies in gender and number, and it is common
See also: teràpia, tractament terapèutic, intervenció terapèutica, teràpia psicològica. Cognates in other languages include terapéutico in