radiotherapy

Other forms of radiotherapy

plural

radiotherapies·

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 radiotherapy

What does radiotherapy mean?

radiotherapy means "(medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance".

How many syllables are in radiotherapy?

radiotherapy has 6 syllables: ra-di-o-the-ra-py. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for radiotherapy?

Close synonyms include radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation. 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.

Is radiotherapy a common word?

radiotherapy 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.