kemoterapi

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch chemotherapie.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /kəmoteˈrapi/ [kə.mo.t̪eˈra.pi]
  • Rhymes: -api
  • Syllabification: ke‧mo‧te‧ra‧pi

Noun

kemoterapi (plural kemoterapi-kemoterapi)

  1. chemotherapy:
    1. (medicine) any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state
    2. (oncology) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient

Derived terms

  • kemoterapi adjuvan
  • kemoterapi induksi
  • kemoterapi intravena
  • kemoterapi neoadjuvan
  • kemoterapi oral
  • kemoterapi paliatif
  • kemoterapi sitotoksik

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