Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Selective destruction of tissue by use of chemicals, as for removing malignant skin lesions.
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- noun medicine the
selective destruction ofdiseased ormalignant tissue by means ofchemical substances ; used especially in the treatment of theskin
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- noun use of chemical to destroy diseased or malignant tissue; used in treatment of skin cancer
Etymologies
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Examples
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Five years ago, Abramson's team pioneered the ultra-selective approach, which he dubbed "chemosurgery."
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Shields and her equally eminent husband, Jerry A. Shields - also an eye-cancer specialist at Wills and Jefferson - have urged that chemosurgery be studied "slowly and meticulously."
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Better to proceed with chemosurgery and hope the blood went away naturally over three to five months.
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The Millemans, who had come from Kechi, Kan., wanted to try one round of chemosurgery before giving up on Logan's eye.
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He had been miserable after chemosurgery - his eyelids swelled, and he wailed in pain despite Tylenol - but by the third day he was his sunny self, laughing as Emily bounced him to "I'm a Little Teapot."
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Mohs surgery: This treatment option for squamous cell carcinoma is also referred to as chemosurgery.
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