chemoprevention
noun
chemoprevention is a noun meaning “The prevention of disease by the use of food supplements, drugs, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-P-R-E-V-E-N-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chemoprevention is chemopreventions.
What does chemoprevention mean?
noun
- 1
The prevention of disease by the use of food supplements, drugs, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of chemoprevention
- chemopreventions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chemoprevention?
Chemoprevention appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does chemoprevention come from?
From chemo- + prevention.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).