oncology - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
First attested 1857, from New Latin onco- (“tumor”), from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “lump, mass, bulk”) + -logy (“study of”).
oncology (countable and uncountable, plural oncologies)
- The branch of medicine concerned with tumors, including study of their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
- Hyponym: cancerology (dated)
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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)