(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Chemotherapy
the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
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the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
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)
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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, Oncology, Clinical psychology, General medicine, Psychology.therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air
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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an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scot…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.The force exerted between the atoms of elementary substance whereby they unite to form chemical compounds; chemical attaction; affinit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.(physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc; "the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: chemical, agents, treat, control, disease.A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousn…
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