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61therapeutic privilege — the right of a doctor to withhold information from a patient when it is feared that disclosure could cause immediate and serious harm to the patient (e.g. because he or she is suffering from severe depression). In exceptional cases, the need to… …
62therapeutic cloning — noun nuclear transplantation of a patient s own cells to make an oocyte from which immune compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be derived for transplant • Syn: ↑biomedical cloning • Hypernyms: ↑somatic cell nuclear transplantation,… …
63therapeutic abortion — Abortion A*bor tion ([.a]*b[^o]r sh[u^]n), n. [L. abortio, fr. aboriri. See {Abort}.] 1. The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. [1913 …
64therapeutic index — Pharm. the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect. Also called margin of safety. [1925 30] * * * …
65therapeutic incompatibility — opposition in therapeutic effect between two or more medicines …
66therapeutic community — Residential units run on psychodynamic lines, first introduced for war time rehabilitation, then developed for those with neurotic and behaviour disorders. The aim is to create a therapeutic environment in which patients are actively involved in… …
67therapeutic index — the ratio of a dose of a therapeutic agent that produces damage to normal cells to the dose that is necessary to have a defined level of anticancer activity. It indicates the relative efficacy of a treatment against tumours …
68therapeutic index — ther′apeu′tic in′dex n. pha the ratio between the dosage of a drug that causes a lethal effect and the dosage that causes a therapeutic effect • Etymology: 1925–30 …
69therapeutic nihilism — noun : skepticism regarding the worth of therapeutic agents especially in a particular disease …
70therapeutic test — noun : a test to aid in diagnosis of an undiagnosed disease by giving the specific remedy for the disease suspected use of liver extract as a therapeutic test for suspected pernicious anemia …
