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Therapeutics > Cryotherapy

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Cryotherapy  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Cold Therapies
  • Cold Therapy
  • Therapies, Cold

Scope note

  • A form of therapy consisting in the local or general use of cold. The selective destruction of tissue by extreme cold or freezing is CRYOSURGERY. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)

History note

  • 94; was see CRYOSURGERY 1984-93

In other languages

  • kylmähoito

    Finnish

  • cryotherapia
  • jäädytys
  • jäädytyshoito
  • kryohoito
  • kryokoagulaatio
  • kryoterapia
  • nestetyppihoito
  • nestetyppijäädytyshoito
  • nestetyppikryohoito
  • nestetyppikylmähoito
  • Kryoterapi

    Swedish

  • Köldterapi

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017679

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