chemo
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A word part meaning relating to chemicals and how they act
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- And if you have chemo mechanical transduction, you will have the canochemical in these systems.
Examples
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Why, why some of the elements of them might be adaptive that that it's, it's a chemo receptor in the brain.
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Well, before I go through this data on the chemical chemo affinity, what other ideas were there around that could explain the map formation?
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Chemotherapy, or chemo for short, can have significant side effects on patients.
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The doctor's plan included using a chemo drug to target the tumor.
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After discussing options, she decided to proceed with chemo for her cancer treatment.
Surface Forms
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Etymology
The combining form chemo- originally meant 'chemical' from an old Greek word for 'chemistry', and you see it in compound words like chemo-synthesis and chemo-receptor. So chemo- in these words shows a link to chemical processes or reactions.
