oncology

English

Etymology

First attested 1857, from New Latin onco- (“tumor”), from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, mass, bulk”) +‎ -logy (“study of”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒi/

Noun

oncology (countable and uncountable, plural oncologies)

1. The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.

   Hyponym: cancerology (dated)

Derived terms

• gyneco-oncology
• neuro-oncology
• oncologic
• oncological
• oncologically
• oncologist

 

Translations

branch of medicine

• Afrikaans: onkologie
• Albanian: onkologjia f
• Arabic: عِلْم اَلْأَوْرَام m (ʕilm al-ʔawrām)
• Armenian: ուռուցքաբանություն (hy) (uṙucʻkʻabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: oncoloxía f
• Azerbaijani: onkologiya
• Basque: onkologia (eu)
• Belarusian: анкалогія f (ankalóhija)
• Bulgarian: онкология f (onkologija)
• Catalan: oncologia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腫瘤學／肿瘤学 (zh) (zhǒngliúxué)

• Czech: onkologie (cs) f
• Danish: onkologi (da) c
• Dutch: oncologie (nl) f
• Esperanto: onkologio
• Estonian: onkoloogia
• Finnish: onkologia (fi)
• French: oncologie (fr) f
• Galician: oncoloxía (gl) f
• Georgian: ონკოლოგია (ka) (onḳologia)
• German: Onkologie (de) f
• Greek: ογκολογία (el) f (ogkología)
• Hebrew: אוֹנְקוֹלוֹגְיָה (he) f (onkologya)
• Hindi: अर्बुदविज्ञान (arbudvijñān)
• Hungarian: onkológia (hu)
• Icelandic: æxlafræði f
• Ido: onkologio
• Indonesian: onkologi (id)
• Interlingua: oncologia
• Irish: oinceolaíocht f
• Italian: oncologia (it) f
• Japanese: 腫瘍学 (ja) (しゅようがく, shuyōgaku)
• Javanese: onkologi
• Kannada: ಗಂಟುರೋಗದ ಅರಿಮೆ (kn) (gaṇṭurōgada arime)
• Kazakh: онкология (onkologiä)
• Korean: 종양학(腫瘍學) (jong'yanghak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: onkolojî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: онкология (ky) (onkologiya)
• Latin: oncologia f
• Latvian: onkoloģija f
• Lithuanian: onkologija f
• Macedonian: онкологија f (onkologija)
• Malay: kaji ketumbuhan, kaji tumor, onkologi (ms)
• Maori: mātai mate pukupuku
• Mingrelian: ონკოლოგია (onḳologia)
• Nepali: ओन्कोलोजी (onkolojī)
• Newar: अङ्कोलोजी (aṅkolojī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: onkologi m

  Nynorsk: onkologi m

• Occitan: oncologia f
• Pali: ओन्कोलोजी (onkolojī)
• Polish: onkologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: oncologia (pt) f
• Romanian: oncologie (ro) f
• Russian: онколо́гия (ru) f (onkológija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: kanseri
• Sanskrit: ओन्कोलोजी (onkolojī)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: онколо̀гија f

  Roman: onkològija (sh) f

• Slovak: onkológia (sk) f
• Slovene: onkologija (sl) f
• Spanish: oncología (es) f
• Swedish: onkologi (sv) c
• Tamil: புற்றுநோயியல் (puṟṟunōyiyal)
• Tatar: онкология (onkoloğiyä)
• Thai: วิทยามะเร็ง (wít-tá-yaa má-reng), วิทยาเนื้องอก (wít-tá-yaa néua ngôk)
• Turkish: onkoloji (tr)
• Ukrainian: онколо́гія f (onkolóhija)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: онкология (uz) (onkologiya)

  Roman: onkologiya (uz)

• Vietnamese: ung thư học
• Waray-Waray: oncolohiya
• Welsh: oncoleg (cy) f
• West Frisian: onkology
• Yiddish: אָנקאָלאָגיע (onkologye)