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chemotherapy

/ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/

chemotherapy noun: any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.

Noun

chemotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural chemotherapies)

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

chemotherapy meaning in Arabic, Indonesian, Persian and Vietnamese

chemotherapy in Arabic

therapeutic chemical treatment
عِلَاج كِيمِيَائِيّ ʕilāj kīmiyāʔiyy

chemotherapy in Indonesian

therapeutic chemical treatment
kemoterapi
chemical treatment to kill or halt cancer
kemoterapi

chemotherapy in Persian

chemical treatment to kill or halt cancer
شیمیدرمانی šimi-darmâni

chemotherapy in Vietnamese

chemical treatment to kill or halt cancer
hoá trị

Examples of chemotherapy in a sentence

  • Mitomycin C is an anticancer drug, and may be administered as part of chemotherapy.
  • When you have cancer, you pretty much have two options: chemotherapy, or game over.
  • She made the decision to take chemotherapy.

All 24 example sentences with chemotherapy

Forms of chemotherapy

pluralchemotherapies

Plural of chemotherapy: chemotherapies

Origin of chemotherapy

From chemo- + therapy.

Words formed from chemotherapy

Questions about chemotherapy

What does chemotherapy mean?
Chemotherapy means any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
What is chemotherapy in Arabic?
Chemotherapy in Arabic is عِلَاج كِيمِيَائِيّ (ʕilāj kīmiyāʔiyy). See Chemotherapy meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a noun.
How do you pronounce chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is pronounced /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/.
What is the plural of chemotherapy?
The plural of chemotherapy is chemotherapies.

Words near chemotherapy in the dictionary

  1. chemotherapeutics
  2. chemotherapic
  3. chemotherapies
  4. chemotherapist
  5. chemotherapists
  6. chemotherapy
  7. chemothermal
  8. chemotic
  9. chemoton
  10. chemotons
  11. chemotopic

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