chemotherapies
- 1Plural of chemotherapy.
Modern oncology offers several chemotherapies tailored to specific cancer types.
Newer chemotherapies attack tumor cells while sparing more of the healthy tissue.
Note
A plural that exists only because chemotherapy can be counted. As a mass noun it names the treatment in general (she is having chemotherapy) and takes no plural. Once it means a particular drug or regimen, it counts, so oncologists can compare several chemotherapies. The plural can also carry the broader meaning of any chemical treatment for disease, not only treatment for cancer.
chemotherapies is a form of chemotherapy
chemotherapy, noun: Treatment that uses chemicals to kill cancerous cells or stop them from multiplying and spreading in a patient. Full entry
- Forms
- chemotherapychemotherapies plural
- Spelling
- chemotherapy → chemotherapies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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