Cancerousness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cancerousness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being cancerous.
Meaning
The state or quality of being cancerous.
Example Sentences
Starting in 1999, he began to mutate particular genes in human cells in culture and then to “interrogate” them for their cancerousness.
Only one line of mouse cells will perform this trick— a line called NIH 3T3 that has been bred in the laboratory for so many generations that it has long since forgotten what normality is, and is within a whisker of cancerousness even without the intervention of extraneous oncogenes.
If, on the other hand, a tumor consist chiefly of fibre or fibrillating blastema, the presumption of its cancerousness diminishes; we have, however, seen a growth in the liver, which had all the aspect of a scirrhous formation, and probably was so, which yet consisted solely of fibre-forming solid blastema.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include malignancy, carcinogenicity, causticness, malignity, neoplasticity, contagiousness.
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