radiation therapy

Questions about radiation therapy

What is another word for radiation therapy?

It depends which radiation therapy you mean. In the sense “(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance”, the synonyms are radiotherapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of radiation therapy?

WordNet records no antonym for radiation therapy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for radiation therapy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of radiation therapy

• Full entry for radiation therapyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for radiation therapyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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