chemotherapy

«chemotherapy» in Mova's school dictionary: a treatment for cancer that uses strong medicines to kill… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (chemotherapy, uncountable; short: chemo)

meaning for a pupil

1) Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer that uses strong medicines to kill the sick cells. tree →

2) It can make people tired and sometimes lose their hair for a while. tree →

sense in the lessons

Met in adult life seen by a child (a parent or grandparent having chemo), health lessons and kind talk; usually shortened to «chemo».

examples

• Grandma is having chemotherapy for her cancer. tree →
• Chemotherapy made Mr Hall very tired. tree →
• His hair grew back after chemo. tree →
• The nurse explained how chemotherapy works. tree →
• Our class made cards for a teacher during her chemo. tree →
• Some people have chemotherapy in hospital, some at a clinic. tree →

note

Uncountable. Informal: chemo. Hair loss is not catching, and you cannot catch cancer from someone. It often helps people get better, but not always.

In the corpora

• Then she told the world herself, in a video, that she had cancer and was having chemotherapy.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chemotherapy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.