chemotherapy

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥

Proto-Hellenic *-mə

Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)

Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.

Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.

Medieval Latin alchēmia

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Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.

New Latin chēmīader.

English chemo-

Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?

Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)

Pre-Greekder.?

Proto-Hellenic *-eús

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)

Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)

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Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.

New Latin therapīabor.

English therapy

English chemotherapy

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

• Arabic: عِلَاج كِيمِيَائِيّ m (ʕilāj kīmiyāʔiyy)
• Armenian: քիմիաթերապիա (hy) (kʻimiatʻerapia)
• Azerbaijani: kimyaterapiya
• 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
• Esperanto: kemiterapio
• Finnish: kemoterapia (fi)
• French: chimiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: quimioterapia f
• German: Chemotherapie (de) f
• Greek: χημειοθεραπεία (el) f (chimeiotherapeía)
• Indonesian: kemoterapi (id)
• Italian: chemioterapia (it) f
• Japanese: 化学療法 (かがくりょうほう, kagaku ryōhō)
• Kazakh: химиялық емдеу (xıymıyalıq emdew)
• Macedonian: хемотерапија f (hemoterapija)
• Polish: chemioterapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: quimioterapia (pt) f
• Russian: химиотерапи́я (ru) f (ximioterapíja)
• Slovak: chemoterapia f
• Spanish: quimioterapia (es)
• Turkish: kimyasal tedavi (tr), ilaç tedavisi (tr), kemoterapi (tr)
• Ukrainian: хімієтерапі́я f (ximijeterapíja)

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
• Esperanto: kemiterapio
• Finnish: kemoterapia (fi)
• French: chimiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: quimioterapia f
• German: Chemotherapie (de) f
• Hungarian: kemoterápia (hu)
• Indonesian: kemoterapi (id)
• Italian: chemioterapia (it) f
• Persian: شیمی‌درمانی (fa) (šimi-darmâni)
• Polish: chemioterapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: quimioterapia (pt)
• Russian: химиотерапи́я (ru) f (ximioterapíja)
• Spanish: quimioterapia (es) f
• Swahili: kemotherapi, tibakemikali
• Swedish: cellgiftsbehandling (sv) c, kemoterapi c
• Turkish: kimyasal tedavi (tr), kemoterapi (tr)
• Ukrainian: хімієтерапі́я f (ximijeterapíja)
• Vietnamese: hoá trị (vi)

Anagrams

• chamerophyte