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Actinotherapy

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The treatment of disease, especially skin disease, by exposure to ultraviolet light; radiotherapy. uncountable

    "I shall discuss in the following chapter the underlying principles and indications of actinotherapy in each of the diseases enumerated."

  2. 2
    (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance wordnet

Etymology

From actino- + therapy.

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