CHEMOTHERAPY

chemotherapy

(noun) the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

Anagrams

• chamerophyte

Source: Wiktionary



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19 November 2024

SALTWORT

(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash


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