Replacement Therapy Definition

noun
The administration of a natural or synthetic substance that compensates for a lack or deficiency caused by inadequate nutrition, certain organic dysfunctions, or loss, as from disease or surgery, of a body organ or tissue that normally produces the substance.
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Replacement Therapy Sentence Examples

  • The recent loss of hormone replacement therapy from the therapeutic armamentarium has left a need for new ways to prevent bone loss.

  • The best replacement therapy for cortisol is oral hydrocortisone.

  • Conversely, in patients receiving replacement therapy with thyroxine mild hyperthyroidism may occur.

  • Abstract In a survey in 1989 Spector observed that 70% of women who had had bilateral oophorectomy had never received hormone replacement therapy.

  • Estrogen replacement therapy has also been shown to significantly reduce the risk for colon cancer but not rectal cancers.

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