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- adjective Not
therapeutic - adjective Unrelated to medical treatment
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Examples
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More specifically, the Court found that many conditions, such as nontherapeutic, uncompensated work assignments, and the absence of any semblance of privacy, constituted dehumanizing factors contributing to the degeneration of the patients' self-esteem.
Report card on U.S. mental healthcare: We have nothing to be proud of (Part I) 2009
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"We truly believe 'nontherapeutic' is just a bad term.
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"We truly believe 'nontherapeutic' is just a bad term.
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The rest, almost 80 percent of all the antibiotics used in the United States every year, are “nontherapeutic.”
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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In the short term we need to put an end to the riskiest practices, such as extreme confinement -- gestation crates and battery cages -- and the nontherapeutic feeding of antibiotics.
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In the short term we need to put an end to the riskiest practices, such as extreme confinement -- gestation crates and battery cages -- and the nontherapeutic feeding of antibiotics.
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Today, institutions as diverse as the American Medical Association; the Centers for Disease Control; the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences; and the World Health Organization have linked nontherapeutic antibiotic use on factory farms with increased antimicrobial resistance and called for a ban.
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The rest, almost 80 percent of all the antibiotics used in the United States every year, are “nontherapeutic.”
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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Today, institutions as diverse as the American Medical Association; the Centers for Disease Control; the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences; and the World Health Organization have linked nontherapeutic antibiotic use on factory farms with increased antimicrobial resistance and called for a ban.
Kerry Trueman: It's Election Day: May I Take Your Order? 2010
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In the short term we need to put an end to the riskiest practices, such as extreme confinement -- gestation crates and battery cages -- and the nontherapeutic feeding of antibiotics.
E. Coli, Salmonella and Other Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens in Food: Factory Farms Are the Reason 2010
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