Usually means: Drug treatment for cancer patients.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. chemotherapy: Merriam-Webster
  2. chemotherapy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chemotherapy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chemotherapy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chemotherapy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chemotherapy, chemotherapy: Wordnik
  7. chemotherapy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chemotherapy: Wiktionary
  9. chemotherapy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chemotherapy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chemotherapy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. chemotherapy: Dictionary.com
  13. chemotherapy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chemotherapy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Chemotherapy (journal), Chemotherapy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. chemotherapy: Rhymezone
  17. chemotherapy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. chemotherapy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. chemotherapy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. chemotherapy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. chemotherapy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chemotherapy: Glossary of Health Care Terms

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chemotherapy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. chemotherapy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Chemotherapy: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Chemotherapy: Merck Manuals
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Cancer Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Lay Terms for Consent Forms (No longer online)
  11. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  12. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  13. chemotherapy: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  14. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  15. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  16. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  17. Chemotherapy: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  18. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  19. Chemotherapy: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  20. chemotherapy: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  21. chemotherapy: Medical dictionary
  22. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  23. Chemotherapy: Brain Injury
  24. Chemotherapy: Drug Medical Dictionary
  25. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemotherapy: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chemotherapy: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See chemotherapist as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
noun:  (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

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