nuclear medicine

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noun

diagnostic and therapeutic medical techniques using radionuclides or radioisotopes.

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Origin of nuclear medicine

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby nuclear medicine

nuclearize, nuclear jaundice, nuclear magnetic resonance, nuclear magnetic resonance scanner, nuclear magneton, nuclear medicine, nuclear membrane, nuclear ophthalmoplegia, nuclear option, nuclear physics, nuclear pore

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How to use nuclear medicine in a sentence

But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
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The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
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The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.
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He used negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program as an example.
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Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
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Barclay, in his tract on "The Vertues of Tobacco," recommends its use as a medicine.
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Upon careful inspection, however, delicate nuclear bands connecting the parts can usually be seen.
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We knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.
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And she did go; the doctor with great attention sending in half a dozen of medicine, to be drunk upon the road.
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British Dictionary definitions for nuclear medicine

nuclear medicine

noun

the branch of medicine concerned with the use of radionuclides in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Medical definitions for nuclear medicine

nuclear medicine

The branch of medicine that deals with the use of radionuclides in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.