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oncofetal

adj

Etymology

From onco- + fetal.

  1. learned borrowing from fētus — “offspring”
  2. suffixed as fetal — “fetus + al”
  3. prefixed as oncofetal — “onco + fetal”

Definitions

  1. Typically present only during fetal development, but also found in adults with certain…

    Typically present only during fetal development, but also found in adults with certain cancers.

    • As an oncofetal antigen, GPC3 is highly expressed in over 70% of HCCs but not in normal adult tissues.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA