chemotherapy

English

Etymology

From chemo- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

Derived terms

• biochemotherapy
• chemotherapeutic
• chronochemotherapy
• electrochemotherapy
• immunochemotherapy
• monochemotherapy
• nonchemotherapy
• photochemotherapy
• polychemotherapy
• postchemotherapy
• prechemotherapy
• radiochemotherapy

 

Translations

therapeutic chemical treatment

• Catalan: quimioteràpia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化療／化疗 (zh) (huàliáo), 化學療法／化学疗法 (huàxué liáofǎ)

• Dutch: chemokuur (nl) f, chemotherapie (nl) f, chemo (nl) f
• Finnish: kemoterapia (fi)
• French: chimiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: quimioterapia f
• German: Chemotherapie (de) f
• Italian: chemioterapia (it) f
• Japanese: 化学療法 (かがくりょうほう, kagaku ryōhō)
• Russian: химиотерапи́я (ru) f (ximioterapíja)
• Slovak: chemoterapia f
• Spanish: quimioterapia (es)
• Turkish: kimyasal tedavi (tr), ilaç tedavisi (tr), kemoterapi (tr)

chemical treatment to kill or halt cancer

• Catalan: quimioteràpia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 化學療法／化学疗法 (huàxué liáofǎ), 化療／化疗 (zh) (huàliáo)

• Czech: chemoterapie (cs) f
• Dutch: chemokuur (nl) m or f, chemotherapie (nl) f
• Finnish: kemoterapia (fi)
• French: chimiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: quimioterapia f
• German: Chemotherapie (de) f
• Hungarian: kemoterápia (hu)
• Italian: chemioterapia (it) f
• Persian: شیمی‌درمانی (fa) (šimi-darmâni)
• Portuguese: quimioterapia (pt)
• Russian: химиотерапи́я (ru) f (ximioterapíja)
• Spanish: quimioterapia (es) f
• Swahili: kemotherapi
• Swedish: cellgiftsbehandling (sv) c, kemoterapi c
• Turkish: kimyasal tedavi (tr), kemoterapi (tr)

Anagrams

• chamerophyte