NUCLEAR MEDICINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nuclear medicine mean? 

• NUCLEAR MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun NUCLEAR MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells

  Familiarity information: NUCLEAR MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUCLEAR MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("nuclear medicine" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

 Context examples 

Indium 111-labeled radioconjugates are used as radioactive tracers in nuclear medicine that detect malignant lesions and inflammatory tissues probably due to an increased capillary permeability.

(Indium In-111 Chloride, NCI Thesaurus)

The techniques used include radiotracer imaging/nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, optical imaging, ultrasound and others.

(Molecular Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

A healthcare professional or scientist with knowledge and competence in health physics including but not limited to nuclear medicine, radiotherapy, radiology and various aspects of physiological monitoring and investigation.

(Medical Physicist, NCI Thesaurus)

Cobalt chloride Co-57 is a radiopharmaceutical used in nuclear medicine as an imaging agent in the diagnosis of certain forms of cancer.

(Cobaltous chloride Co-57, NCI Thesaurus)

The area of responsibilities of nuclear medicine technologist includes patient care (radiopharmaceuticals preparation and administration, use of radiation detection devices and other laboratory equipment to evaluate the quantity and distribution of radionuclides deposited in the patient or in a patient specimen, in vivo and in vitro diagnostic procedures, use of quality control and safety techniques), technical tasks, and administration.

(Nuclear Medicine Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)