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neversmoker

noun

Etymology

From never + smoker.

  1. derived from *(s)mewg-✻ — “to smoke”
  2. derived from *smaukaną✻ — “to smoke”
  3. inherited from *smukōną✻ — “to smoke”
  4. inherited from *smokōn✻
  5. inherited from smocian — “to smoke, emit smoke; fumigate”
  6. inherited from smoken
  7. formed as smoker — “smoke + -er”
  8. compounded as neversmoker — “never + smoker”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of never-smoker.

    • Lung cancer in neversmoker appears to be a distinct entity from lung cancer in smoker, with specific molecular characteristic such as frequent EGFR mutations.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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