Meaning of cancerousness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being cancerous.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Starting in 1999, he began to mutate particular genes in human cells in culture and then to “interrogate” them for their cancerousness.”

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