chemotherapy

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chemotherapy

Etymology

From chemo- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

chemotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural chemotherapies)

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

Derived terms

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, tibakemikali
Swedish: cellgiftsbehandling (sv) c, kemoterapi c
Turkish: kimyasal tedavi (tr), kemoterapi (tr)

Anagrams

chamerophyte

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