(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance
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Inflation therapy
therapy in which water or oxygen or a drug is introduced into the respiratory tract with inhaled air
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the therapeutic use of aromatic plant extracts and essential oils in baths or massage
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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.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.therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues
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One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.a drug that neutralizes or counteracts the effects of another drug
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.A compound formerly supposed to be modification of oxygen, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antag…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.an inhaled bronchodilator (trade name Atrovent)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.A salt of metasilicic acid; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen of the silica to the oxygen of the base is as two to one. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.respiratory organ of aquatic animals that breathe oxygen dissolved in water
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.The air inhaled and exhaled in respiration; air which, in the process of respiration, has parted with oxygen and has received carbonic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.the most commonly used illicit drug; considered a soft drug, it consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Ch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.the trade name for a drug used to treat upper respiratory congestion; it contains an antihistamine and a bronchodilator and a vasocons…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: therapy, water, oxygen, drug, introduced.salt produced from the mineral water of Bad Ems, used as a medicine for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.; "Gargling with Emser…
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