pho·to·phe·re·sis
n : a method of treating disease (as certain lymphomas) esp. of T cell origin that involves pretreating blood in the living patient by administering a photoactive drug (as methoxalen), obtaining a fraction rich in white blood cells, exposing the fraction to damaging ultraviolet radiation, and returning it to the body where it stimulates a therapeutic immunological response .
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