kemoterapi

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch chemotherapie.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kəmoteˈrapi/ [kə.mo.t̪eˈra.pi]
• Rhymes: -api
• Syllabification: ke‧mo‧te‧ra‧pi

Noun

kemoterapi (plural kemoterapi-kemoterapi)

1. chemotherapy:
   1. (medicine) any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
   2. (oncology) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

Derived terms

• kemoterapi adjuvan
• kemoterapi induksi
• kemoterapi intravena
• kemoterapi neoadjuvan
• kemoterapi oral
• kemoterapi paliatif
• kemoterapi sitotoksik

Further reading

• “kemoterapi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.