Relating to chemical treatment of disease; used interchangeably with chemotherapeutic, though less commonly.
From chemotherapy + -eutical suffix variant (from Greek therapeutikos). A less frequent variant that adds the -ical ending for adjectival formation.
This longer form of chemotherapeutic is rarely used today, but it reveals how English speakers experimented with different suffixes to describe the emerging field of chemical medicine.
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