Occupation or Discipline
nuclear medicine Audio
nu·cle·ar med·i·cine [ noo-klee-er meh-dih-sin ]
Subclass of:
Radiology Specialty
Definitions related to discipline of nuclear medicine:
  • (nuclear medicine) A specialty field of radiology concerned with diagnostic, therapeutic, and investigative use of radioactive compounds.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (nuclear medicine) Nuclear Medicine is the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (nuclear medicine) Special field of radiology dealing with diagnostic, therapeutic and investigative use of radioisotopes and radioactive compounds.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Nuclear medicine, medical specialty that involves the use of radioactive isotopes in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear medicine enables clinicians to noninvasively and precisely identify specific molecular activity within tissues and organs of the body, facilitating the early...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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