carcinogenesis
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]carcinogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural carcinogeneses)
- (oncology) The creation of cancer cells.
- Hyponyms: carcinomagenesis, sarcomagenesis
- 1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds, page 185:
- Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]the creation of cancer cells
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See also
[edit]carcinogenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia