What does «bioterapia» mean in Spanish?
- Treatment of certain diseases or their symptoms by living substances, such as lactic ferments, yeasts, etc. or living organisms such as worms, leeches, etc.
- Any of several unrelated therapies that utilize natural biological processes, especially those that utilize parts of the immune system. Biological therapy is, therefore, any form of treatment that uses the body's natural abilities that make up the immune system to fight infection and disease or to protect the body from some of the side effects of treatment.
- Any pharmaceutical product manufactured in, extracted from, or semi-synthesized from biological sources. Also called a biopharmaceutical. As opposed to fully synthesized pharmaceuticals, include vaccines, blood, blood components, allergens, somatic cells, gene therapies, tissues, recombinant therapeutic proteins and live cells used in cell therapy.