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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of medicine that deals with the use of radionuclides in diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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- noun medicine The branch of medicine that uses
radioactive isotopes in thediagnosis andtreatment ofdisease
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- noun the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells
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