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Cryotherapy vs Cryosurgery - What's the difference?

cryotherapy | cryosurgery |

As nouns the difference between cryotherapy and cryosurgery

is that cryotherapy is the use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction while cryosurgery is (medicine) the use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.

cryotherapy

English

Noun

(wikipedia cryotherapy)
  • The use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.

    • Derived terms

    * cryotherapist

    cryosurgery

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cryosurgery)
  • (medicine) The use of a probe containing liquid nitrogen to freeze and thus destroy tissue.

    • Related terms

    * cryosurgeon * cryosurgical