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RADIOTHERAPY

Dictionary entry overview: What does radiotherapy mean?

• RADIOTHERAPY (noun)
The noun RADIOTHERAPY has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: RADIOTHERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• RADIOTHERAPY (noun)

Sense 1

radiotherapy ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

actinotherapy; radiation therapy; radiotherapy; irradiation; radiation

Hypernyms ("radiotherapy" 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 "radiotherapy"):

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)

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