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Definition 2024

oncology

oncology

English

Noun

oncology ‎(countable and uncountable, plural oncologies)

The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

Translations

branch of medicine

Armenian: ուռուցքաբանություն (hy) ‎(uṙucʿkʿabanutʿyun)
Asturian: oncoloxía f
Catalan: oncologia f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 腫瘤學 (zh), 肿瘤学 (zh) ‎(zhǒngliúxué)
Czech: onkologie (cs) f
Danish: onkologi (da) c
Dutch: oncologie (nl) f
Finnish: onkologia (fi)
French: oncologie (fr) f
Galician: oncoloxía f
German: Onkologie (de) f
Greek: ογκολογία (el) f ‎(onkología)
Icelandic: æxlafræði f

Irish: oinceolaíocht f
Italian: oncologia (it) f
Japanese: 腫瘍学 ‎(しゅようがく, shuyōgaku)
Korean: 종양학 ‎(jong-yanghak)
Malay: kaji ketumbuhan, kaji tumor, onkologi
Occitan: oncologia f
Portuguese: oncologia f
Romanian: oncologie (ro) f
Russian: онколо́гия (ru) f ‎(onkológija)
Spanish: oncología (es) f
Swedish: onkologi (sv) c
Turkish: onkoloji (tr)
Ukrainian: онколо́гія f ‎(onkolóhija)
Vietnamese: ung thư học
Welsh: oncoleg (cy) f

Derived terms