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chemo
1[ kee-moh, kem-oh ]
noun
- chemotherapy or a chemotherapy treatment.
chemo-
2- a combining form with the meanings “chemical,” “chemically induced,” “chemistry,” used in the formation of compound words:
chemotherapy.
chemo
1/ ˈ쾱ːəʊ /
noun
- informal.short for chemotherapy
chemo-
2combining_form
- indicating that chemicals or chemical reactions are involved
chemotherapy
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of chemo1
Example Sentences
When most people think about cancer, they imagine the physical toll that it takes: weeks of chemo or radiation treatment, or multiple surgeries and visits to various specialists.
But when he starts hallucinating conversations with climate activist Greta Thunberg, imagining himself at a support group for extinct animals and actually vandalizing borrowed lawnmowers, it seems his chemo is upending his brain.
Now with chemo side effects, “I’m gonna end up looking like the Last Airbender. Or the fattest Air Gender Bender.”
Dave Coulier, comedian and ‘Full House’ actor, resurfaces after six rounds of chemo for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
On Monday, he delivered a positive update in a Parade article, saying his doctors had “carpet-bombed me for three more treatments” after seeing improvement in a PET scan that was done halfway through chemo.
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