2. Adjective. Unrelated to medical treatment ¹
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Definition of Nontherapeutic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nontherapeutic
Literary usage of Nontherapeutic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-related Health Hazards by Bernard Lo, Mary Ellen O'Connell (2005)
"Research Risks to Children The court held that a parent or guardian cannot consent
to a child's enrollment in “nontherapeutic” research in which there is ..."
2. Guidelines for Treatment of Cancer Pain (1993)
"... administer dangerous drugs or controlled substances to a person the physician
knows or should know to be using drugs for nontherapeutic purposes. Sec. ..."
3. Genetic Information and Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor edited by James M. Jeffords (2001)
"... organization has not debated that as a whole—I think the boundary of this
discussion again is between the therapeutic and the nontherapeutic issues. ..."
4. State Methadone Treatment Guidelines: A Treatment Improvement Protocol by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"For nonprescribed nontherapeutic use, the challenge for each clinician is to
continue to search for treatment interventions that may be altered to enable ..."
5. Nuclear Legislation: Analytical Study : Regulatory and Institutional by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2000)
"... 2) the Atomic Energy Commission's programme of radioisotope distribution; 3)
nontherapeutic research on children; 4) total body irradiation; ..."
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