thérapeutique

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”).

• IPA^(key): /te.ʁa.pø.tik/

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thérapeutique (plural thérapeutiques)

1. therapeutic

• acharnement thérapeutique

thérapeutique f (plural thérapeutiques)

1. Field of medicine that studies and applies treatments
2. (medicine) Set of processes involved in a specific treatment

• → Greek: θεραπευτική (therapeftikí) (learned)

• “thérapeutique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.