iontotherapy

Questions about iontotherapy

What does iontotherapy mean?

iontotherapy means "therapy that uses a local electric current to introduce the ions of a medicine into the tissues".

How many syllables are in iontotherapy?

iontotherapy has 6 syllables: i-on-to-the-ra-py. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for iontotherapy?

Close synonyms include iontophoresis, ionic medication, electromotive drug administration, EMDA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iontotherapy a common word?

iontotherapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.