radiotherapy

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin radiusder.

English radio-

Proto-Indo-European *treb-der.?

Ancient Greek θερᾰ́πων (therắpōn)

Pre-Greekder.?

Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)

Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)

Ancient Greek θεραπεύω (therapeúō)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek θεραπεία (therapeía)bor.

New Latin therapīabor.

English therapy

English radiotherapy

From radio- + therapy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

radiotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural radiotherapies)

1. Synonym of radiation therapy.

Derived terms

• chemoradiotherapy
• cranioradiotherapy
• immunoradiotherapy
• postradiotherapy
• radiotherapic
• radiotherapist
• teleradiotherapy
• thermoradiotherapy

Translations

therapeutic use of radiation — see also radiumtherapy

• Arabic: عِلَاج بِالأَشِعَّة (ʕilāj bi-l-ʔašiʕʕa)
• Catalan: radioteràpia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 放射治療 / 放射治疗 (zh) (fàngshè zhìliáo)

• Czech: radioterapie (cs) f
• Dutch: radiotherapie (nl) f, bestraling (nl) f
• Esperanto: radioterapio
• Finnish: sädehoito (fi)
• French: radiothérapie (fr) f
• Galician: radioterapia f
• German: Radiotherapie (de) f
• Hungarian: radioterápia (hu), sugárterápia (hu), sugárkezelés (hu)
• Italian: radioterapia (it) f
• Kazakh: радиациялық емдеу (radiasiälyq emdeu)
• Māori: haumanu iratuke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: strålebehandling m or f

  Nynorsk: strålebehandling f

• Persian: پرتودرمانی (fa) (partow-darmâni), رادیوتراپی (fa) (râdiyoterâpi)
• Polish: radioterapia (pl) f
• Portuguese: radioterapia f
• Russian: радиотерапия (ru) f (radioterapija)
• Spanish: radioterapia (es) f
• Swahili: tibaredio, tiba ya mionzi
• Turkish: şua tedavisi, ışın tedavisi (tr)
• Vietnamese: xạ trị

See also

• brachytherapy
• teletherapy
• Roentgentherapy
• chemotherapy