单词 | oncology |
释义 | oncologyn. Medicine. The branch of medicine that deals with the study and treatment of tumours, esp. by non-surgical means. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > oncology oncology1857 cancerology1937 carcinology1959 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Oncologia, term for the doctrines of boils or tumours: oncology. 1915 F. L. Hoffman Mortality from Cancer i. 1 There are few more interesting subjects for statistical analysis than cancer, or what is, perhaps, more appropriately termed the science of oncology, which comprehends tumors of all kinds, whether malignant or benign or ill-defined. 1935 Science 3 May 430/2 Dr. James Ewing, professor of oncology, Medical College, Cornell University. 1968 N. Bethell & D. Burg tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Cancer Ward (1969) i. i. 3 According to the arrangement with the head doctor of the oncology clinic, the matron was supposed to wait for them at two o'clock. 1971 Nature 19 Feb. 517/3 The Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) last week announced the establishment of..a medical oncology unit. 2003 More Apr. 148/1 James F. Barter, M.D., clinical professor of gynecologic oncology..stressed the importance of getting a Pap sample from the area referred to as the transformation zone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1857 |
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