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radiosensitize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ra-diosen-si-tize
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To use a drug to make a patient more sensitive to radiation therapy

Etymology

From radio- + sensitize.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

radiosensitizes (present, singular) radiosensitizing (participle, present) radiosensitized (participle, past) radiosensitized (past)

Derived Forms

chemoradiosensitize

Questions

What does radiosensitize mean?
To use a drug to make a patient more sensitive to radiation therapy
Where does radiosensitize come from?
From radio- + sensitize.

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