Medical Terminology / Unit 2 MedTerm 0102 short lesson, about 20 seconds
-therapy: Treatment
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The idea
The suffix therapy names treatment by the means its root identifies.
In practice
Chemotherapy is treatment by chemical agents.
Where people slip
The root names how treatment is given, not what is being treated.
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