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chemo, n. colloq.
Brit. |ˈkiːməʊ|, U.S. |ˈkimoʊ|
[Shortened ‹chemotherapy n.]
Chemotherapy (as a treatment for cancer). Freq. attrib.
1977Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 27 July 36/1 The dates of the National at Clemson, S.C...were between his ‘chemo’ treatments. 1980P. K. Dick in Stellar Sci. Fiction Stories No. 5. 72 Commodity Central provided Rybus with two wigs, since, due to the chemo, her hair had been systematically killed. 1997J. Updike Toward End of Time 264 Plus there's all sorts of mop-up tricks you can do with radioactive implants and chemo. 2005Globe & Mail 3 Aug. a15/6 The addition of the drug rituximab increased two-year survival by more than 50 per cent, compared with using only the standard mix of four chemo drugs. |