GC: n

S: WHO – http://www.who.int/topics/antiretroviral_therapy/en/ (last access: 29 April 2016); WHO – http://www.who.int/lep/mdt/en/ (last access: 29 April 2016); http://www.esciencecentral.org/journals/infectious-diseases-and-therapy.php (last access: 29 April 2016).

N: 1. 1846, “medical treatment of disease,” from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia “curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service,” from therapeuein “to cure, treat medically,” literally “attend, do service, take care of” (see therapeutic).
2. The treatment of physical or mental illnesses.
Therapeutic treatment especially of bodily, mental, or behavioral disorder
3. Collocations:

• Adj.: alternative, complementary; behaviour, speech; aversion, occupational, regression, relaxation, shock, etc.; family, group.
• Quant.: course.
• Verb + therapy: need, require; be given, have, receive, undergo; be in, go into.
• Therapy + noun: group, session.
• Phrases: a form of therapy the use of hypnosis as a form of therapy.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=therapy (last access: 29 April 2016). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/therapy (last access: 29 April 2016). 3. OD – http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=therapy (last access: 29 April 2016).

SYN: therapeutics, treatment, therapeutic measure. (depending on context)

S: GDT – http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8382709 (last access: 29 April 2016)

CR: acatalasemia, disease, infusion, sick person, stem cell transplant.