"immunotherapy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: immunotherapies [plural]
Etymology: From immuno- + therapy. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|immuno|therapy}} immuno- + therapy Head templates: {{en-noun}} immunotherapy (plural immunotherapies)
  1. (immunology) The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response. Categories (topical): Immunology
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  2. (immunology) The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response.
    (immunology, oncology) The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically: cancer immunotherapy.
    Categories (topical): Immunology, Oncology Translations (treatment of cancer): immunoterapia (Finnish), immunothérapie [feminine] (French), ανοσοθεραπεία (anosotherapeía) [feminine] (Greek), immunterápia (Hungarian), immunoterapia [feminine] (Italian), 免疫治療 (men'eki-chiryō) (alt: めんえきちりょう) (Japanese), 癌免疫治療 (gan-men'eki-chiryō) (alt: がんめんえきちりょう) (Japanese), ایمنیدرمانی (imeni-darmâni) (Persian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: therapy Derived forms: immunotherapeutic, immunotherapeutically Related terms: immunomodulation, immunomodulatory Translations (treatment of disease): imunoterapie [feminine] (Czech), siedätys (Finnish), siedätyshoito (Finnish), immunoterapia (Finnish), immunothérapie [feminine] (French), ανοσοθεραπεία (anosotherapeía) [feminine] (Greek), immunoterapia [feminine] (Italian), 免疫治療 (men'eki-chiryō) (alt: めんえきちりょう) (Japanese), ایمنیدرمانی (imeni-darmâni) (Persian)
Disambiguation of 'treatment of disease': 50 50

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.