nontherapeutic - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

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From non- +‎ therapeutic.

nontherapeutic (not comparable)

1. Not therapeutic
2. Unrelated to medical treatment
   • 1988 November 18, Eric Scigliano, “How to Win the War on Drugs”, in Chicago Reader‎[1]:
     But the notorious British heroin "epidemic" was nothing next to the entirely bootleg U. S. epidemic that occurred at the same time; in 1967 the Home Office counted 1,290 "nontherapeutic" addicts.

• nontherapeutic abortion

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