chrysotherapy

1. 1.

   the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis)

   Broaderchemotherapy

Other forms of chrysotherapy

plural

chrysotherapies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chrysotherapy

What does chrysotherapy mean?

chrysotherapy means "the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis)".

How many syllables are in chrysotherapy?

chrysotherapy has 5 syllables: chry-so-the-ra-py. The stress falls on "the".

Is chrysotherapy a common word?

chrysotherapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.