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drug therapy
- Subject Category
- H Health and Pathology
- Definition
- The use of drugs to treat a disease or its symptoms. One example is the use of antineoplastic agents to treat cancer.
- Definition Source
- Medical Subject Headings
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/24728.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/24728
- Used For
- antibiotherapy
- antimicrobial therapy
- chemotherapy
- drug treatment
- medication
- pharmacotherapy
- polytherapy
- Broader Term
- therapeutics
- Narrower Term
- anti-HIV drug therapy
- combination drug therapy
- drug administration routes
- enzyme therapy
- extra-label drug use
- hormone replacement therapy
- phototherapy
- Related Term
- deworming
- drug delivery systems
- drugs
- Spanish
- terapia medicamentosa
- Term Number
- 24728