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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#m1)

2) It can make people tired and sometimes lose their hair for a while. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x1)
- Chemotherapy made Mr Hall very tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x2)
- His hair grew back after chemo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x3)
- The nurse explained how chemotherapy works. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x4)
- Our class made cards for a teacher during her chemo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x5)
- Some people have chemotherapy in hospital, some at a clinic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/45-the-royal-family-in-the-news-a-queens-death-a-coronation-titles-lost-and-illnesses-announced/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chemotherapy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chemotherapy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.