Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
laser therapy Audio
la·ser ther·a·py [ lay-zer thayr-uh-pee ]
Subclass of:
Therapeutic procedure; Ablation Techniques
Definitions related to laser therapy:
  • Any procedure in which an intense beam of light is used to cut, burn, or destroy tissue.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The use of photothermal effects of LASERS to coagulate, incise, vaporize, resect, dissect, or resurface tissue.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Treatment that uses intense, narrow beams of light to cut and destroy tissue, such as cancer tissue. Laser therapy may also be used to reduce lymphedema (swelling caused by a buildup of lymph fluid in tissue) after breast cancer surgery.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Treatment using irradiation with monochromatic light; includes laser surgery.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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