Medical Definition of Photodynamic sensitization

1. The action by which certain substances, notably fluorescing dyes (acridine, eosin, methylene blue, rose bengal) absorb visible light and emit the energy at wavelengths that are deleterious to microbes or other organisms in the dye-containing suspension, or selectively destroy cancer cells sensitised by intravenous porphyrin and exposed to red laser light. Synonym: photosensitization. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Photodynamic Sensitization

photodocumentary
photodope
photodosimetry
photodraft
photodrafts
photodrama
photodramas
photodrome
photodromes
photodromy
photoduplicate
photoduplicated
photoduplicates
photodynamic
photodynamic radiation therapy
photodynamic sensitization (current term)
photodynamic therapy
photodynamically
photodynamics
photodynesis
photodynia
photodysphoria
photoecology
photoed
photoelastic
photoelasticity
photoelectret
photoelectrets
photoelectric
photoelectric absorption

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