ACTINOTHERAPY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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)