Definition of "nontherapeutic" [nontherapeutic]

• Not therapeutic (adjective)
• Unrelated to medical treatment (adjective)

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• "More specifically, the Court found that many conditions, such as nontherapeutic, uncompensated work assignments, and the absence of any semblance of privacy, constituted dehumanizing factors contributing to the degeneration of the patients' self-esteem."
• ""We truly believe 'nontherapeutic' is just a bad term."
• "In the short term we need to put an end to the riskiest practices, such as extreme confinement -- gestation crates and battery cages -- and the nontherapeutic feeding of antibiotics."