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actinotherapy

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13 lettersPart of speech nounSorted aacehinoprttyStarts with AEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance

Word origin

From actino- + therapy.

Used in a sentence

  • I shall discuss in the following chapter the underlying principles and indications of actinotherapy in each of the diseases enumerated.
  • The author reports a series of 160 cases of peritoneal and genital tuberculosis in the female, about half of which were treated by actinotherapy and heliotherapy, while the other half were given radiotherapy.
  • Apart from tuberculosis and open wounds, the other main indication found for actinotherapy was rickets.

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