Definition of "therapeutically" [therapeutically]

• In a therapeutic manner. (adverb)

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• "Indeed, well before Coleridge conceived the "Rime," physicians were using electical eels and torpedoes therapeutically, that is, as a means of removing blockages to the circulation of the "electrical fluids" in the patient's body by inducing electrical shocks (Tatar, 53-54)."
• ""KRAS has been very difficult to target therapeutically, which is why we are looking at molecules, such as PKCi, that convey signals downstream of KRAS that can be manipulated," Dr. Murray says."
• "It's a broken system, yielding fewer therapeutically significant new medicines, and pricing drugs out of reach of the poor."