immunotherapy

English

Etymology

From immuno- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: im‧mu‧no‧the‧ra‧py

Noun

immunotherapy (plural immunotherapies)

(immunology) The treatment of disease by adjusting the body's immune response.
(oncology) The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically.

Hypernyms

therapy

Translations

treatment of disease

Czech: imunoterapie f
Finnish: siedätys, siedätyshoito, immunoterapia

Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)
Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō)

treatment of cancer

Finnish: immunoterapia
Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)

Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō), 癌免疫治療 (がんめんえきちりょう, gan-men'eki-chiryō)

References

immunotherapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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