Definition of Curietherapy

1. Noun. The use of radium in radiation therapy.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Curietherapy

Cuquenan
Cuquenan Falls
Curaçao
Curaçaoan
Curculionidae
Curcuma
Curcuma domestica
Curcuma longa
Curetonian
Curia
Curie
Curie's law
Curie point
Curie points
Curie temperature
Curietherapy (current term)
Curitiba
Curling's ulcer
Curragh
Currer Bell
Curry–Howard correspondence
Curschmann's disease
Cursorius
Cursorius cursor
Curt
Curtis
Curtisia
Curtiss
Curupira

Literary usage of Curietherapy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Radium; Abstracts of Selected Articles on Radium and Radium Therapy by United States Radium Corporation, American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"As curietherapy is commonly used, therefore, the intensity appears to be inversely proportional to the distance (not to the square of the distance), ..."

2. Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Preventive Medicine by G. Koehler, Bernard Fantus, William Augustus Evans (1921)
"Curietherapy in Roentgen Dermatitis. ... report the successful use of Curietherapy in three cases of Roentgen-ray dermatitis occurring in radiologists, ..."

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