heliotherapy

American

[hee-lee-oh-ther-uh-pee] / ˌhi li oʊˈθɛr ə pi /

noun

treatment of disease by means of sunlight.

heliotherapy British

/ ˌhiːlɪəʊˈθɛrəpɪ /

noun

the therapeutic use of sunlight

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Etymology

Origin of heliotherapy

First recorded in 1885–90; helio- + therapy

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heliotherapy

The design of the home was meant to fulfill requirements of heliotherapy based on work by Dr. Nils Finsen, the 1903 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 11, 2011

The operative surgical quality but that he was reluctant to shed human blood even when the end justified the means, preferring, in their natural order, heliotherapy, psychophysicotherapeutics, osteopathic surgery.

From Ulysses by James Joyce

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