Definitions for oncology

oncology on·col·o·gy

Spelling: [ong-kol-uh-jee]
IPA: /ɒŋˈkɒl ə dʒi/

Oncology is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in oncology (cglnoooy).

Definitions for oncology

noun

  1. the branch of medical science dealing with tumors, including the origin, development, diagnosis, and treatment of malignant neoplasms.
  2. the study of cancer.

Origin of oncology

First recorded in 1855-60; onco- + -logy

Examples for oncology

He was formerly the head of Esophageal oncology and Surgery at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla.

He hopes to attend Columbia Medical School and specialize in oncology.

Demicheli also had been a physicist but had switched to oncology research after his wife died of Hodgkin lymphoma in 1976.

If there was a “cure” coming out of Big Pharma and oncology, we would all know about it.

Perhaps if I were in a field like oncology, I would have grown more used to this tragic duty by now.

Omran was the first person he met at the oncology floor of the hospital.

How many doctors in the oncology world would be able to provide us with this kind of substantiation?

Word Value for oncology
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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