abscopal

Meaning

Adjective

• Denoting the effect that irradiation of a tissue has on remote nonirradiated tissue.

Origin

• From Latin ab ("away from") and Ancient Greek σκοπός ("target, aim"). Term first described by Dr. R. J. Mole in 1953 in the British Journal of Radiology, "Whole body irradiation- radiobiology or medicine?" . Br. J. Radiol., 26: 234-241, 1953.