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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor. Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor. Medieval Latin alchēmia ▲ Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ. New Latin chēmīader. English chemo- English therapeutic English chemotherapeutic From chemo- + therapeutic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 232:
Deriveds
postchemotherapeutic · chemotherapeutic agent · radiochemotherapeutic · chemotherapeutically · prechemotherapeutic · polychemotherapeutic · nonchemotherapeutic · photochemotherapeutic · immunochemotherapeutic
Translations (16)
pt quimioterapêutica (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · gl quimioterapéutica (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · ca quimioterapèutica (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · ca quimioterapèutic (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · es quimioterapéutico (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · it chemioterapeutico (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · cs chemoterapeutický (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · de chemotherapeutisch (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · gl quimioterapéutico (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · pl chemioterapeutyczny (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · it chemioterapico (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · hu kemoterápiás (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · pt quimioterapêutico (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · hu kemoterapeutikus (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · fr chimiothérapeutique (of or having to do with chemotherapy) · it chemioterapeutica (of or having to do with chemotherapy)