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NUCLEAR MEDICINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("nuclear medicine" is a kind of...):
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)