antitumour

1. 1.

   used in the treatment of cancer

   “anticancer drug”

   “an antineoplastic effect”

   Synonymsanticancerantineoplasticantitumor

Questions about antitumour

What does antitumour mean?

antitumour means "used in the treatment of cancer".

How many syllables are in antitumour?

antitumour has 4 syllables and divides as an-ti-tu-mour under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for antitumour?

Close synonyms include anticancer, antineoplastic, antitumor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.