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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Quimioterapêutico

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ki.mi.o.te.ɾaˈpe.tʃiku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chemotherapeutic/ˌkiː.moʊˌθɛr.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O quimioterapêutico foi eficaz no tratamento."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Relating to the treatment of disease by the use of chemical substances, especially in cancer treatment.

    "The chemotherapeutic regimen was designed to target the specific type of cancer cells."
As noun
  1. 1

    A drug used in chemotherapy.

    "The oncologist prescribed a new chemotherapeutic to improve the patient's chances of recovery."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from New Latin, combining the Greek prefix chēmeía (alchemy/chemistry), Greek therapeía (healing/medical treatment), and the English adjectival suffix -tic. It emerged in the early 20th century alongside modern pharmacological developments, specifically popularized by Paul Ehrlich to describe the use of chemical substances to treat infectious diseases and later malignant neoplasms.

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