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Glossary
The words used about ozone, light and heat, explained in plain language.
- Ozone and oxygen16 terms
- Light and photobiomodulation20 terms
- Heat, infrared and the body's response20 terms
- Cell biology and proposed mechanisms15 terms
All terms, A to Z
- Adjunctive therapy
- Antioxidant
- ATP (adenosine triphosphate)
- Blue light (therapeutic)
- Capillary development / angiogenesis
- Catalase
- Chromophore
- Chromotherapy
- Collagen Synthesis
- Convective versus radiant heating
- Core body temperature
- Corona discharge versus UV ozone generation
- Cytochrome c oxidase (CCO)
- Detoxification
- Dose-response relationship
- Electron transport chain
- Eye safety and light
- Far infrared (FIR)
- Fluence
- Glutathione
- Green light (therapeutic)
- Half-life
- Heat shock response
- Hormesis
- Humidity
- Hyperthermia
- Inflammatory cytokines
- Irradiance
- LED array
- Lipid oxidation products (LOPs)
- Low-level laser/light therapy (LLLT)
- Medical ozone
- Micron (µm) and the 12 micron far infrared rating
- Mitochondrial membrane potential
- Mitochondrial Stimulation
- Modulation
- Molecular sieve
- Nanometre (nm)
- Near infrared 850 nm
- Near-infrared (NIR)
- Nitric oxide (NO) dissociation
- Nrf2
- O3 disinfection cycle
- Off-gassing
- Oxidant
- Oxidative phosphorylation
- Oxidative preconditioning
- Oxygen concentrator
- Ozone (O3)
- Ozone concentration (ppm)
- Ozone destructor
- Ozone generator / corona discharge
- Ozone output (mg/h)
- Ozone-resistant materials
- Photobiomodulation (PBM)
- Photoreceptor
- Radiant heat
- Red blood cell flexibility (rheology)
- Red light (630–660 nm)
- Session settings
- Singlet oxygen / reactive oxygen species (ROS)
- Sudorific effect
- Superoxide dismutase (SOD)
- Synergistic effect
- Thermogenesis
- Tissue oxygenation
- Transdermal delivery
- TRPV1
- Vasodilation
- Wavelength (nm)
- Wet heat versus dry sauna