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ACTINOTHERAPY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
Synonyms:
actinotherapy; irradiation; radiation; radiation therapy; radiotherapy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("actinotherapy" is a kind of...):
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "actinotherapy"):
phototherapy (the use of strong light to treat acne or hyperbilirubinemia of the newborn)
Curietherapy; radium therapy (the use of radium in radiation therapy)
X-ray therapy (the therapeutic use of X rays)
