Definition of "therapeutic" []

• Having or exhibiting healing powers: a therapeutic agent; therapeutic exercises. (adjective)
• Of or relating to therapeutics. (adjective)

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• "The American Life League, an anti-abortion group, says on its website that "the use of the term 'therapeutic' is another pro-abortion attempt to sanitize a repulsive act.""
• "Mr. Farthing is among a number of soldiers who had informally adopted stray dogs during their tours of duty for what he calls therapeutic value."
• "So we have developed at Cedar Sinai in our laboratory, what we call a therapeutic brain cancer vaccine, where we actually take the tumor out at surgery."