Definition of biotherapy in English:
biotherapy
noun bʌɪəʊˈθɛrəpiˌbīōˈTHerəpē
mass nounThe use of living organisms in the treatment of disease.
Example sentencesExamples
- A feasibility study was conducted to establish the safety and, to some extent, the effectiveness of a new approach of perioperative adjuvant biotherapy in patients with resected cutaneous melanoma.
- Biotherapy is designed to repair, stimulate, or enhance your bodys own immune responses.
- BresaGen, Ltd. is an Australian biotechnology company committed to the discovery and commercial development of innovative biotherapies.
- The use of maggots is part of a larger category of medicine in which living organisms, like leeches or bees, are used as a direct part of treatment, a class of procedures known as biotherapy.
- Reports of the use of leeches in plastic surgery and maggots in dermatology raise the question of which other animals may be of benefit, a concept some call ‘biotherapy.’