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Definition of Nuclear medicine
1. Noun. The branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells.
Definition of Nuclear medicine
1. Noun. (medicine) The branch of medicine that uses radioactive isotopes in the diagnosis and treatment of disease ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Nuclear medicine
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuclear Medicine
Literary usage of Nuclear medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nuclear Legislation: Analytical Study : Regulatory and Institutional by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2000)
"The use of unsealed radioactive sources on humans is limited to physicians who
have undergone specialised training in nuclear medicine and who have been ..."
2. Beneficial Uses and Production of Isotopes: 2000 Update by Nea, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2000)
"In nuclear medicine imaging for diagnosis of common diseases, ... 2.7.7 Nuclear
diagnostic imaging nuclear medicine diagnostic imaging is a unique technique ..."
3. Latex Allergies and the Health Care Industry by Charlie Norwood (2000)
"... NY 1975: National Naval Medical Center, Diplomate, Officer's Program in Nuclear
Medicine and Radioisotopes 1977-1980: Johns Hopkins University, ..."
4. Small Business Innovation Research: Program Solicitation (1993)
"Molecular nuclear medicine—Grant applications are sought for the development of
radiolabeled molecular probes that target specific disease-associated ..."
5. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"A wide variety of radioisótopos are recovered by chemical processing and distributed
to the nuclear medicine research community. ..."
6. Creating the New World: Stories & Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Theodore Rockwell (2003)
"Seventy-one year old Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel laureate medical physicist, one of the
founders of the new discipline of nuclear medicine, was outside in the cold ..."
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