Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Medical therapy involving the application of heat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The use of heat, either moist or dry, in the treatment of disease.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Treatment of disease by heat, esp. by hot air.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine The use of heat to treat disease

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the use of heat to treat a disease or disorder; heating pads or hot compresses or hot-water bottles are used to promote circulation in peripheral vascular disease or to relax tense muscles

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Examples

  • For the study, researchers assigned the patients to 10 one-hour sessions of massage, relaxation therapy (which entailed breathing deeply while lying down), or thermotherapy (in which participants had their arms and legs wrapped intermittently with heating pads and warm towels).

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  • Nearby is Spa Nordic Station at Magog, a thermotherapy concept borrowed from Finland.

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  • If you don't feel up to performing Harold's amazing thermotherapy on your fruits, he says you should at least spread out your fruit and dry it off when you get it home.

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  • The potential use of Curaxins as adjuvants to cancer therapies inducing proteotoxic stress, such as bortezomib (Velcade�) or thermotherapy, opens a whole new avenue of potential treatment options that may broaden the spectrum of responding tumors by cutting off an escape mechanism.

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  • Receipt of IDE clearance from the FDA will be a significant strategic milestone for the Company towards our business goal on global commercialization of the Microfocus APA 1000 thermotherapy system for the treatment of breast cancer.

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  • This technique is also called volumetric thermotherapy.

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