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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
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