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say it: ahng-KAH-luh-jee
oncology is a noun meaning "the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors". It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for oncology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.