afterloading
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afterloading
(′af·tər′lōd·iŋ)
(medicine) Placing nonradioactive holders in a patient during an operative procedure to provide radiographic information used for dosimetric evaluation, and to receive the radioactive sources during the course of postoperative treatment.
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