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hydrotherapy en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Hellenic *údōr Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr) Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)lbor. English hydro- Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.? Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn) Pre-Greekder.? Proto-Hellenic *-eús Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús) Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō) Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor. New Latin therapīabor. English therapy English hydrotherapy From hydro- + therapy.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.
   • At the bedside, healers practiced a variety of Western fads such as hydrotherapy, which utilized harmless but ineffectual water cures for many ailments [...] 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 68:
   • Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy. 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:

Forms

Deriveds

colon hydrotherapy

Relateds

balneotherapy

Translations (24)

ja 水治療 (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · fi vesiterapia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · nl watertherapie (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · de Wasserheilkunde (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · eo hidroterapio (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · de Hydrotherapie (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · ru водолече́ние (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · it idroterapia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · ca hidroteràpia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · cmn 水療 /水疗 (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · ja 水療法 (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · de Hydropathie (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · io hidroterapio (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · fi vesihoito (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · fr hydrothérapie (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · hu hidroterápia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · cs vodoléčba (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · ru гидротерапи́я (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · pl hydroterapia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · pl wodolecznictwo (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · es hidroterapia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · he הידרותרפיה (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · th วารีบำบัด (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease) · pt hidroterapia (technique that uses water for the treatment of disease)