| contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
| eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact
physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
| contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
| therapy | (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.), the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury, he tried every treatment the doctors suggested, heat therapy gave the best relief |
hormone replacement therapy
hormoneeplacement therapy
HRT | hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women, believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis |
| infrared therapy | the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to a particular area of the body |
| inflation therapy | therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air |
| megavitamin therapy | therapy based on a theory that taking very large doses of vitamins will prevent or cure physical or psychological disorders |
| occupational therapy | therapy based on engagement in meaningful activities of daily life, especially to enable or encourage participation in such activities in spite of impairments or limitations in physical or mental functions |
physical therapy
physiotherapy
physiatrics | therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
behavior therapy
behavior modification | psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior |
| aversion therapy | any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way, primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success) |
| exposure therapy | a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation |
implosion therapy
flooding | a technique used in behavior therapy, client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them |
reciprocal inhibition
reciprocal-inhibition therapy | a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it, a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety |
| cliententered therapy | a method of psychotherapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the client determines the focus and pace of each session |
group therapy
group psychotherapy | psychotherapy in which a small group of individuals meet with a therapist, interactions among the members are considered to be therapeutic |
| family therapy | any of several therapeutic approaches in which a family is treated as a whole |
| play therapy | form of psychotherapy for children that uses play situations for diagnosis or treatment |
radiotherapy
radiation therapy
radiation actinotherapy
irradiation | (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance |
radium therapy
Curietherapy | the use of radium in radiation therapy |
| Xay therapy | the therapeutic use of X rays |
shock therapy
shock treatment | treatment of certain psychotic states by the administration of shocks that are followed by convulsions |
electroconvulsive therapy
electroshock
electroshock therapy
ECT | the administration of a strong electric current that passes through the brain to induce convulsions and coma |
insulin shock
insulin shock therapy
insulin shock treatment | the administration of sufficient insulin to induce convulsions and coma |
metrazol shock
metrazol shock therapy
metrazol shock treatment | the administration of sufficient Metrazol to induce convulsions and coma |
| speech therapy | any therapy intended to correct a disorder of speech |
| thrombolytic therapy | therapy consisting of the administration of a pharmacological agent to cause thrombolysis of an abnormal blood clot |
autogenic therapy
autogenic training
autogenics | training patients in self-induced relaxation |
| radiation | the act of spreading outward from a central source |
contact
tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
| contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
| contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
drug cocktail
highly active antiretroviral therapy
HAART | a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors, used in treating AIDS and HIV |
| electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
| radiation pyrometer | a pyrometer for estimating the temperature of distant sources of heat, radiation is focussed on a thermojunction connected in circuit with a galvanometer |
| radiotherapy equipment | equipment used to treat diseases with xays or radioactivity |
wiper wiper arm
contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
| acoustic radiation pressure | (acoustics) the pressure exerted on a surface normal to the direction of propagation of a sound wave |
optic radiation
radiatio optica | a nerve pathway from the lateral geniculate body to the visual cortex |
| radiation | a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain |
| irradiation | (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus |
| Planck's radiation law | (physics) an equation that expresses the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of an ideal black body |
| irradiation | the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background |
liaison
link
contact
inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
| eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
radiation pattern
radiation diagram
pattern | graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle |
| contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |