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hydrotherapy

hydrotherapy noun: any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.

Noun

hydrotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural hydrotherapies)

  1. Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.
    • 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
    • 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

hydrotherapy meaning in Tamil and Thai

hydrotherapy in Tamil

குளியல் மருத்துவம், நீர் மருத்துவம், நீர்ச்சிகிச்சை

hydrotherapy in Thai

technique that uses water for the treatment of disease
วารีบำบัด waa-rii-bam-bàt

Forms of hydrotherapy

pluralhydrotherapies

Origin of hydrotherapy

From hydro- + therapy.

Words formed from hydrotherapy

Questions about hydrotherapy

What does hydrotherapy mean?
Hydrotherapy means any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.
What is hydrotherapy in Tamil?
Hydrotherapy in Tamil is குளியல் மருத்துவம், நீர் மருத்துவம், நீர்ச்சிகிச்சை. See Hydrotherapy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hydrotherapy?
Hydrotherapy is a noun.
What is the plural of hydrotherapy?
The plural of hydrotherapy is hydrotherapies.

Words near hydrotherapy in the dictionary

  1. hydrotherapeutics
  2. hydrotherapia
  3. hydrotherapies
  4. hydrotherapist
  5. hydrotherapists
  6. hydrotherapy
  7. hydrothermal
  8. hydrothermal vent
  9. hydrothermal vents
  10. hydrothermalism
  11. hydrothermally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hydrotherapy (page history and authors); hydrotherapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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