immunotherapy

English

Etymology

From immuno- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: im‧mu‧no‧the‧ra‧py

Noun

immunotherapy (plural immunotherapies)

1. (immunology) The treatment of disease by adjusting the body's immune response.
2. (oncology) The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically.

Hypernyms

• therapy

Translations

treatment of disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: imunoterapie f
• Finnish: siedätys, siedätyshoito, immunoterapia
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• French: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)
• Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō)

treatment of cancer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: immunoterapia
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• French: please add this translation if you can
• Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)
• Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō), 癌免疫治療 (がんめんえきちりょう, gan-men'eki-chiryō)

References

• immunotherapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia