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Words related to irradiation

Related / Similar Words: radiotherapy, radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light

Definition:

(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to radiation from a radioactive substance;

(Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus;

the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background;

(physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex;

a column of light (as from a beacon);

the condition of being exposed to radiation;

Hyponyms: phototherapy, radium therapy, Curietherapy, X-ray therapy, heat ray, high beam, moonbeam, moon ray, moon-ray, sunbeam, sunray, laser beam, low beam

Derivational Morphology: irradiate, ray, shine, beam

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