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Noun: cobalt machine
  1. A machine used in the treatment of cancer with the use of gamma rays from cobalt-60 radioisotopes.
    "Because the cobalt machines were expensive and required specialist support they were often housed in cobalt units."

Type of: machine, medical instrument

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