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carcinogenesis

noun

Etymology

From carcino- + -genesis.

Definitions

  1. The creation of cancer cells.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carcinogenesis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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