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Definition of Oncology
1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors.
Definition of Oncology
1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oncology
1. the science of tumors [n -GIES]
Medical Definition of Oncology
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Oncology
Literary usage of Oncology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Neoplastic Diseases: A Treatise on Tumors by James Ewing (1922)
"... NEOPLASTIC DISEASES GENERAL oncology CHAPTER I HISTORICAL The Ancients knew
cancer well. They treated it by excision ..."
2. Lempriere's Universal Biography: Containing a Critical and Historical by John Lemprière, Eleazar Lord, John Watkins (1825)
"The French attributed to him the beauties and the faults of Propertius, a brilliant
imagination, often regardless of the language of decorum. oncology in ..."
3. Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/health Care Partnership by Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, Gary Fanjiang, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine (U.S.), National Academies Press (U.S.) (2005)
"Collaborative approaches to purchasing and managing oncology services fora prepaid
... How sociodemographics, presence of oncology specialists, and hospital ..."