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Radiotherapy vs Radiodiagnosis - What's the difference?

radiotherapy | radiodiagnosis |

As nouns the difference between radiotherapy and radiodiagnosis

is that radiotherapy is the therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease while radiodiagnosis is (medicine) diagnosis by means of x-rays or radiochemical tracers.

radiotherapy

English

(wikipedia radiotherapy)

Noun

(radiotherapies)
  • The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.

    • Synonyms

    * radiation therapy

    Derived terms

    * radiotherapist

    See also

    * brachytherapy * teletherapy * Roentgentherapy * chemotherapy

    radiodiagnosis

    English

    Noun

    (radiodiagnoses)
  • (medicine) diagnosis by means of X-rays or radiochemical tracers