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actinotherapy en · NOUN

Etymology

From actino- + therapy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The treatment of disease, especially skin disease, by exposure to ultraviolet light; radiotherapy.
    • I shall discuss in the following chapter the underlying principles and indications of actinotherapy in each of the diseases enumerated. 1917, Charles Herman Viol, William Herron Cameron, Radium, volumes 9-10, page 8:
    • Apart from tuberculosis and open wounds, the other main indication found for actinotherapy was rickets. 1994, G. David Baxter, Costas Diamantopoulos, Therapeutic Lasers: Theory and Practice, page 5:
    • 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. 1946, Radiological Society of North America, Radiology, volume 47, page 209:

Relateds

actinism · actinotherapeutic · actinotherapeutics

Translations (5)

pt actinoterapia (treatment of disease by ultraviolet light) · kn ಬೆಳಕಿರ್ಪುಮಾಂಜುಗೆ (treatment of disease by ultraviolet light) · fr actinothérapie (treatment of disease by ultraviolet light) · ro actinoterapie (treatment of disease by ultraviolet light) · ca actinoteràpia (treatment of disease by ultraviolet light)