chemotherapeuticsn.
/ˌkiːmə(ʊ)ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks/, /ˌkɛmə(ʊ)ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪks/, U.S. /ˌkimoʊˌθɛrəˈpjudɪks/, /ˌkɛmoʊˌθɛrəˈpjudɪks/ Medicine.
The study, development, and use of specific chemical agents for the treatment of disease; the chemotherapeutic properties of a chemical agent or drug.
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1910 Lancet 10 Dec. 1684/2 (heading) The principles underlying chemotherapeutics and ‘606’.
1921 F. S. Meara Treatm. Acute Infectious Dis. (ed. 2) xxxiv. 674 At the moment of the revision of this work an elaborate study of the chemotherapeutics of Chaulmoogra oil..appeared.
1956 Q. Rev. Biol. 31 65/1 At one time essentially ancillary to physiology and rooted in empiricism, pharmacology has become invested with a secure foundation in chemistry with the development of chemotherapeutics.
1994 D. Mender Myth of Neuropsychiatry iii. 32 His [sc. Paracelsus'] innovative ideas about chemotherapeutics contradicted the prevailing orthodoxies of his day.
2000 R. Saljia & A. T. Skarin in A. T. Skarin Multimodality Treatm. of Lung Cancer i. i. 13 Angiogenesis inhibition would be an ideal tool in clinical chemotherapeutics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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