photodynamic therapy

photodynamic therapy definition - medical

photodynamic therapy

noun
A type of phototherapy in which a nontoxic light-sensitive compound that has been injected into a patient is exposed selectively to light, whereupon it becomes toxic to targeted malignant and other diseased cells.

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