oncology
[ong-kol-uh-jee]
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noun
the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
the study of cancer.
Origin of oncology
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He hopes to attend Columbia Medical School and specialize in Oncology.
Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.
Perhaps if I were in a field like oncology, I would have grown more used to this tragic duty by now.
Omran was the first person he met at the oncology floor of the hospital.
He was formerly the head of Esophageal Oncology and Surgery at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla.
oncology
noun
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oncology
[ŏng-kŏl′ə-jē]
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oncology
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oncology
[(ong-kol-uh-jee, on-kol-uh-jee)]
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