Infra Health Dictionary

The band of electromagnetic radiation which has a longer wavelength than that of the red in the visible spectrum. Infrared radiation is used in the special photographic process essential to THERMOGRAPHY. Its property of transmitting radiant heat has made infrared radiation invaluable in PHYSIOTHERAPY, where it warms tissues, soothes pain and increases the local circulation.... infrared radiation

Services, facilities, institutions, personnel or establishments, organizations and those operating them for the delivery of a variety of health programmes.... health system infrastructure

A term denoting the part of the electromagnetic spectrum immediately beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum.

Directed onto the skin, infra-red radiation heats the skin and the tissues immediately below it.

An infra-red lamp is one means of giving heat treatment.... infra-red

see omentectomy.... infracolic omentectomy