virotherapy
noun
virotherapy is a noun meaning “The use of genetically modified viruses to treat cancer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-R-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of virotherapy is virotherapies.
What does virotherapy mean?
noun
- 1
The use of genetically modified viruses to treat cancer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of virotherapy
- virotherapies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is virotherapy?
Virotherapy appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 virotherapy come from?
From viro- + therapy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).