AEROTHERAPEUTICS Definition & Meaning

aerotherapeutics

[ air-oh-ther-uh-pyoo-tiks ]

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noun

(used with a singular verb)

the branch of therapeutics that deals with the curative use of air or of artificially prepared atmospheres.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of aerotherapeutics¹

aero- + therapeutics

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Aerotherapeutics is the treatment of disease by atmospheres artificially prepared and differing from the normal in compression or pressure or temperature.

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For radiant heat and light baths and electric baths of all kinds, see Electrotherapeutics; and for compressed air baths, Aerotherapeutics.

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AEROTHERAPEUTICS, the treatment of disease by atmospheric air: a term which of late has come to be used somewhat more loosely to include also pneumotherapeutics, or the treatment of disease by artificially prepared atmospheres.

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