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corticotherapy

corticotherapy noun: the therapeutic use of corticoids (especially glucocorticoids).

Noun

corticotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural corticotherapies)

  1. The therapeutic use of corticoids (especially glucocorticoids)
    • We systematically reviewed the risks and benefits of adjunctive corticotherapy in the management of patients with CAP. / Methods / We systematically searched Pubmed,^([sic]) Embase and the Cochrane Library for randomized controlled trials comparing adjunctive corticotherapy and antimicrobial...2015 December 8, “Adjunctive Corticotherapy for Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of corticotherapy

pluralcorticotherapies

Origin of corticotherapy

From cortico- + therapy.

Questions about corticotherapy

What does corticotherapy mean?
Corticotherapy means the therapeutic use of corticoids (especially glucocorticoids).
What part of speech is corticotherapy?
Corticotherapy is a noun.
What is the plural of corticotherapy?
The plural of corticotherapy is corticotherapies.

Words near corticotherapy in the dictionary

  1. corticotemporal
  2. corticothalamic
  3. corticothalamocerebellar
  4. corticothalamocortical
  5. corticotherapies
  6. corticotherapy
  7. corticotomies
  8. corticotomy
  9. corticotrope
  10. corticotropes
  11. corticotroph

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