Glossary Item
Human therapeutic use : human therapeutic
Effective 18 July 2017 to 20 June 2019Preferred Term: Definition - Human therapeutic use
Other Terms:
- human therapeutic use
- human therapeutic
- human therapeutics
- Human therapeutic
Definition:
Therapeutic use means use in or in connection with:
(a) preventing, diagnosing, curing or alleviating a disease, ailment, defect or injury in persons; or
(b) influencing, inhibiting or modifying a physiological process in persons; or
(c) testing the susceptibility of persons to a disease or ailment; or
(d) influencing, controlling or preventing conception in persons; or
(e) testing for pregnancy in persons; or
(f) the replacement or modification of parts of the anatomy in persons.