Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chemoreduction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: chemore-duc-tion
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

chemotherapy used to reduce the size of a tumour before radiation treatment or surgery

Etymology

From chemo- + reduction.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: chemo

Inflected Forms

chemoreductions (plural)

Questions

What does chemoreduction mean?: chemotherapy used to reduce the size of a tumour before radiation treatment or surgery
Where does chemoreduction come from?: From chemo- + reduction.

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