Therapy vs. Cure

Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.

Specifically, psychotherapy.

Healing power or quality.

To treat with a therapy.

To undergo a therapy.

Therapeutics.

(medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.);

Example: ‘the quarterback is undergoing treatment for a knee injury’; ‘he tried every treatment the doctors suggested’; ‘heat therapy gave the best relief’;

A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications.

A method, device or medication that restores good health.

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

A solution to a problem.

A process of preservation, as by smoking.

A process of solidification or gelling.

(engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.

(obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.

That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy.

(transitive) To restore to health.

Example: ‘Unaided nature cured him.’;

(transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.

Example: ‘Unaided nature cured his ailments.’;

(transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).

Example: ‘Experience will cure him of his naïveté.’;

(transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.

Example: ‘The smoke and heat cures the meat.’;

(intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.

(intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.

Example: ‘The meat was put in the smokehouse to cure.’;

(intransitive) To solidify or gel.

Example: ‘The parts were curing in the autoclave.’;

To become healed.

(obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

Care, heed, or attention.

Example: ‘Of study took he most cure and most heed.’; ‘Vicarages of greatcure, but small value.’;

Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate; a curacy; as, to resign a cure; to obtain a cure.

Example: ‘The appropriator was the incumbent parson, and had the cure of the souls of the parishioners.’;

Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.

Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health from disease, or to soundness after injury.

Example: ‘Past hope! pastcure! past help.’; ‘I do cures to-day and to-morrow.’;

Means of the removal of disease or evil; that which heals; a remedy; a restorative.

Example: ‘Cold, hunger, prisons, ills without a cure.’; ‘The proper cure of such prejudices.’;

A curate; a pardon.

To heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; - said of a patient.

Example: ‘The child was cured from that very hour.’;

To subdue or remove by remedial means; to remedy; to remove; to heal; - said of a malady.

Example: ‘To cure this deadly grief.’; ‘Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power . . . to cure diseases.’;

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit.

Example: ‘I never knew any man cured of inattention.’;

To prepare for preservation or permanent keeping; to preserve, as by drying, salting, etc.; as, to cure beef or fish; to cure hay.

To pay heed; to care; to give attention.

To restore health; to effect a cure.

Example: ‘Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,Is able with the change to kill and cure.’;

To become healed.

Example: ‘One desperate grief cures with another's languish.’;

a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain

provide a cure for, make healthy again;

Example: ‘The treatment cured the boy's acne’; ‘The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to’;

prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve;

Example: ‘cure meats’; ‘cure pickles’;

make (substances) hard and improve their usability;

Example: ‘cure resin’;

be or become preserved;

Example: ‘the apricots cure in the sun’;

relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition

Example: ‘he was cured of the disease’;

eliminate (a disease or condition) with medical treatment

Example: ‘this technology could be used to cure diabetes’;

solve (a problem)

Example: ‘a bid to trace and cure the gearbox problems’;

preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by salting, drying, or smoking

Example: ‘home-cured ham’;

harden (rubber, plastic, concrete, etc.) after manufacture by a chemical process such as vulcanization

Example: ‘the early synthetic rubbers were much more difficult to cure than natural rubber’;

undergo hardening by a chemical process

Example: ‘the mastic takes days to cure’;

a parish priest in a French-speaking country.

A cure is a substance or procedure that ends a medical condition, such as a medication, a surgical operation, a change in lifestyle or even a philosophical mindset that helps end a person's sufferings; or the state of being healed, or cured. The medical condition could be a disease, mental illness, genetic disorder, or simply a condition a person considers socially undesirable, such as baldness or lack of breast tissue.