chemotherapy

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Etymology

chemo- +‎ therapy

Noun

chemotherapy (countable and uncountable; plural chemotherapies)

1. (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
2. (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

Translations

chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state

Dutch: chemokuur (nl) m. and f., chemotherapie (nl) f. Finnish: kemoterapia (fi)

Galician: quimioterapia (gl) f. Spanish: quimioterapia (es)

chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient

Czech: chemoterapie (cs) f. Dutch: chemokuur (nl) m. and f., chemotherapie (nl) f. Galician: quimioterapia (gl) f.

Hungarian: kemoterápia (hu) Spanish: quimioterapia (es) f. Swedish: cellgiftsbehandling (sv) c., kemoterapi (sv) c.

Derived terms

• chemotherapeutic

Anagrams

• chamerophyte