Meaning & use
pharmacotherapeutics
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The branch of medical science concerned with the use of drugs to treat and manage disease.
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The course in pharmacotherapeutics covered dosing strategies for common chronic conditions.
Advances in pharmacotherapeutics have made many once-fatal infections manageable.
A note on using this word
A technical term used mainly in medical and pharmacy education; in everyday speech, people usually just say 'drug treatment' or 'medication therapy.'
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