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CURIETHERAPY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Curietherapy mean?
• CURIETHERAPY (noun)
The noun CURIETHERAPY has 1 sense:
1. the use of radium in radiation therapy
Familiarity information: CURIETHERAPY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of radium in radiation therapy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Curietherapy; radium therapy
Hypernyms ("Curietherapy" is a kind of...):
actinotherapy; irradiation; radiation; radiation therapy; radiotherapy ((medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance)
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