nuclear medicine

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   the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells

   Broadermedicine

Questions about nuclear medicine

What does nuclear medicine mean?

nuclear medicine means "the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells".

Is nuclear medicine a common word?

nuclear medicine 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.