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cryotherapy

cryotherapy noun: the use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.

Noun

cryotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural cryotherapies)

  1. The use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.

cryotherapy meaning in Tamil and Arabic

cryotherapy in Tamil

குளிர் மருத்துவம்

cryotherapy in Arabic

use of low temperatures in medical therapy
عِلَاج بِالتَّبْرِيد ʕilāj bi-t-tabrīd

Forms of cryotherapy

pluralcryotherapies

Origin of cryotherapy

From cryo- + therapy.

Words formed from cryotherapy

Questions about cryotherapy

What does cryotherapy mean?
Cryotherapy means the use of low temperatures in medical therapy or the removal of heat from a body part, aiming to decrease cellular metabolism and inflammation and to promote vasoconstriction.
What is cryotherapy in Tamil?
Cryotherapy in Tamil is குளிர் மருத்துவம். See Cryotherapy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cryotherapy?
Cryotherapy is a noun.
What is the plural of cryotherapy?
The plural of cryotherapy is cryotherapies.

Words near cryotherapy in the dictionary

  1. cryotherapeutic
  2. cryotherapeutically
  3. cryotherapies
  4. cryotherapist
  5. cryotherapists
  6. cryotherapy
  7. cryothermal
  8. cryothermostat
  9. cryothermostats
  10. cryothermy
  11. cryotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cryotherapy (page history and authors); cryotherapy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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