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Definition of Actinotherapy
1. Noun. (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance.
Generic synonyms: Therapy
Specialized synonyms: Phototherapy, Curietherapy, Radium Therapy, X-ray Therapy
Category relationships: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Derivative terms: Radiotherapist
Definition of Actinotherapy
1. Noun. (medicine) The treatment of disease, especially skin disease, by exposure to ultraviolet light; radiotherapy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Actinotherapy
1. In dermatology, ultraviolet light therapy. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Actinotherapy
Literary usage of Actinotherapy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compend of Diseases of the Skin by Jay Frank Schamberg (1913)
"actinotherapy AND RADIOTHERAPY actinotherapy. In 1896, Dr. Niels R. Finsen, of
Copenhagen, published a report upon the use of concentrated actinic rays of ..."
2. Diseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers by Jay Frank Schamberg (1921)
"... thickened patches may be excised. Upon the first evidence of malignancy radical
surgical measures should be applied. actinotherapy, RADIOTHERAPY ..."
3. Diseases of the skin: Inluding the Acute Eruptive Fevers by Frank Crozer Knowles (1914)
"Phototherapy (Finsen Light; actinotherapy).—The bacterial properties of light
were demonstrated first by Downes and Blunt in 1877. Bacteria may be destroyed ..."
4. Radiotherapy and Phototherapy by Charles Warrenne Allen, Milton Franklin, Samuel Stern (1904)
"PART V. actinotherapy. CHAPTER XXV. INTRODUCTION. As we have seen in considering
light therapy, attempts have been made at many stages of the history of ..."
5. Skin and Venereal Diseases (1913)
"RADIOTHERAPY AND actinotherapy. Electrotherapy in Skin and Mucous Membrane Diseases.
The use of electrolysis, ionization, high frequency current and the ..."
6. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"actinotherapy.—Freund summarizes the action of light as follows : It ... Much of
our present knowledge of actinotherapy we owe to Finsen, of Copenhagen. ..."
7. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"Phototherapy (actinotherapy) is the most satisfactory of all the methods of ...
It is more rapid than actinotherapy. 8. Tuberculin does not cure these cases ..."
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