radiotherapy

English

Etymology

radio- +‎ therapy

Noun

radiotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural radiotherapies)

1. The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.

Synonyms

• radiation therapy

Derived terms

• radiotherapist

Translations

therapeutic use of radiation

• Catalan: radioteràpia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: radioterapie (cs) f
• Dutch: radiotherapie (nl) f, bestraling (nl) f
• Finnish: sädehoito (fi)
• French: radiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: radioterapia f
• German: Radiotherapie (de) f
• Italian: radioterapia (it) f
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• Kazakh: рентгенология (rentgenologiä)
• Maori: haumanu iratuke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strålebehandling m or f

  Nynorsk: strålebehandling f

• Persian: پرتودرمانی (fa) (partow-darmâni), رادیوتراپی (fa) (râdioterâpi)
• Portuguese: radioterapia f
• Spanish: radioterapia f

See also

• brachytherapy
• teletherapy
• Roentgentherapy
• chemotherapy