the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
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(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the use of radium in radiation therapy
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Oncology, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
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Used in the same subject area: Medicine and healthcare, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.the use of infrared radiation (as by infrared lamps or heating pads or hot water bottles) to relieve pain and increase circulation to…
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Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.a positively charged particle that is the nucleus of the helium atom; emitted from natural or radioactive isotopes
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.an oral dose of radioactive substance used in treatment and diagnosis of cancer
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.a high-speed electron or positron emitted in the decay of a radioactive isotope
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.malignant neoplastic disease of the liver usually occurring as a metastasis from another cancer; symptoms include loss of appetite and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.Like a cancer; having the qualities or virulence of a cancer; affected with cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.any substance that produces cancer
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.Medical or hygienic care; remedial treatment of disease; a method of medical treatment; as, to use the water cure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: medicine, treatment, disease, cancer, exposure.the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation
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