lightbath

plural lightbaths

1. raremedicineA therapeutic or wellness-oriented exposure of the body or skin to radiant light.

   After some months of cure and lightbaths her general condition had improved, temperature was constantly normal, weight increased.

   1928, C. Hambro, “Erytema Nodosum And Tuberculosis Of The Lungs”, in Acta tuberculosea et pneumologica Scandinavica, volume 3, page 29

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   General phototherapy should be taken to mean irradiation with ultraviolet and infrared light, the light sources being at such a distance from the patient that he receives as it were a "lightbath."

   1961, University of California (publisher), Proceedings, page 333

   Colors abused their senses: skins like chrome, or jungle leaves, or patterned carpet; clothing that fluoresced in the sunlight; in one shop, strands of meat hanging in a red lightbath and glowing with green flecks;

   1988, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, An Honorable Defense