radiopharmaceutical

[ rey-dee-oh-fahr-muh-soo-ti-kuhl ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. any of a number of radioactive drugs used diagnostically or therapeutically.

Origin of radiopharmaceutical

1
First recorded in 1950–55; radio- + pharmaceutical

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