actinotherapy

English

Etymology

From actino- +‎ therapy.

Noun

actinotherapy (uncountable)

1. (medicine) The treatment of disease, especially skin disease, by exposure to ultraviolet light; radiotherapy.
   • 1917, Charles Herman Viol, William Herron Cameron, Radium, volumes 9-10, page 8:

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

   • 1946, Radiological Society of North America, Radiology‎^[1], volume 47, page 209:

     The author reports a series of 160 cases of peritoneal and genital tuberculosis in the female, about half of which were treated by actinotherapy and heliotherapy, while the other half were given radiotherapy.

   • 1994, G. David Baxter, Costas Diamantopoulos, Therapeutic Lasers: Theory and Practice, page 5:

     Apart from tuberculosis and open wounds, the other main indication found for actinotherapy was rickets.

Related terms

• actinism
• actinotherapeutic
• actinotherapeutics

Translations

treatment of disease by ultraviolet light

• Catalan: actinoteràpia f
• French: actinothérapie (fr) f
• Kannada: ಬೆಳಕಿರ‍್ಪುಮಾಂಜುಗೆ (kn) (beḷakira‍pumāñjuge)
• Portuguese: actinoterapia f
• Romanian: actinoterapie (ro) f