radiopharmaceutical

radiopharmaceutical
/ray'dee oh fahr'meuh sooh"ti keuhl/, n. Pharm.
any of a number of radioactive drugs used diagnostically or therapeutically.
[1950-55; RADIO- + PHARMACEUTICAL]

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