Carcinogen

Definition: Carcinogen

Carcinogen

Noun

1. Any substance that produces cancer.

Domain	Definitions
Agriculture	Any substance that produces or promotes cancer. This is a key consideration in evaluating the safety of pesticides and other chemicals. (references)
Environment	Any substance that can cause or aggravate cancer. (references)
Health	Any substance that causes cancer. (references)
	A substance that causes cancer. (references)
Medicine	Substance which, under favourable conditions through direct or indirect action, either externally or internally, act on healthy tissue cells to cause a metamorphosis and bring about a rapid proliferation of the cellular elements and the development of structural abnormalities with the predominance of immature elements, and destructive proliferative activity. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Carcinogen

Specialty definitions using "carcinogen": 1,2-Dimethylhydrazine, 1-Naphthylamine ♦ 2-Acetylaminofluorene ♦ 3-Hydroxyanthranilic Acid ♦ 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline-1-oxide, 4-Nitroquinoline-1-oxide ♦ 9,10-Dimethyl-1,2-benzanthracene ♦ Amitrole, Azoxymethane ♦ Believable Agent Project ♦ CARCINOGENS, Chronic toxicity ♦ Epichlorohydrin, Ethylene Dibromide ♦ Hempa ♦ Methylazoxymethanol Acetate, Methylcholanthrene, Methyldimethylaminoazobenzene ♦ Nitrosomethylurethane ♦ One-hit Model ♦ Thiourea. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carcinogen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (carcinogenic), Romanian (carcinogen), Swedish (carcinogen, carcinogenic).

Domain	Title
Books	Carcinogen Risk Assessment (Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, Vol 3) (reference) Enzyme Induction, Mutagen Activation and Carcinogen Testing in Yeast (Ellis Horwood Series in Biochemistry and Biotechnology) (reference) Handbook of Carcinogen Testing (reference) Human Carcinogen Exposure: Biomonitoring and Risk Assessment (reference) Modulators Exper Carcinogen IARC 51 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		There can be a delay of several decades between exposure to a carcinogen and the onset of cancer. (references)
		In early adulthood, treated rats were dosed with a high concentration of the carcinogen dimethylbenz[ a ]anthracene (DMBA). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Carcinogen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carcinogen" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	29	64,444

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "carcinogen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkaktues kanseri, kanserogjen. (various references)

Arabic		‏المسرطن مادة محدثة للسرطان. (various references)

Bulgarian		канцерогенно вещество, канцерогенен. (various references)

Chinese		致癌物质 (carcinogenic). (various references)

Czech		karcinogen. (various references)

Danish		carcinogen (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, initiating agent, initiating factor), karcinogen (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references)

Dutch		carcinogeen (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), kankerverwekkende stof (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references)

Farsi		ماده مولدیامشددسرطان , سرطانزا. (various references)

Finnish		syöpää aiheuttava aine (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), karsinogeeni (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references)

French		composé cancérigène, cancérogène (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), substance cancérogène (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), substance cancérigène, agent cancérogène (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references)

German		karzinogen (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, promoter, tumorigenic). (various references)

Greek		καρκινογόνος (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), καρκινογόνο (carcinogenic, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references)

Hebrew		מסרטן. (various references)

Hungarian		rákkeltõ anyag. (various references)

Italian		carcinogeno (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), cancerogeno (carcinogenic, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		発癌物質 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はつが�"ぶっしつ. (various references)

Korean		발�"물질. (various references)

Pig Latin		arcinogencay

Portuguese		carcinogene, carcinogéneo. (various references)

Romanian		carcinogen. (various references)

Russian		карциногенное вещество, канцерогенный (carcinogenic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ono što stvara rak, karcinogeni (carcinogenic). (various references)

Spanish		carcinógeno (carcinogenic, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references)

Swedish		carcinogen (carcinogenic, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references)

Turkish		kanserojen madde, kansere neden olan madde veya etmen. (various references)

Ukranian		канцерогенна речовина. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "carcinogen": carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, carcinogenic, carcinogenicities, carcinogenicity, carcinogens. (additional references)
	Words ending with "carcinogen": anticarcinogen, cocarcinogen, noncarcinogen. (additional references)
	Words containing "carcinogen": anticarcinogenic, anticarcinogens, cocarcinogenic, cocarcinogens, noncarcinogenic, noncarcinogens. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Carcinogen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carcinagen, carcinigen, carciniogen, carcinogene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "carcinogen" (pronounced kÄrsi"nujun)
6	-i" n u j u n	plasminogen.
4	-u j u n	antigen, estrogen, glycogen, halogen, hydrogen, nitrogen, origin, oxygen, pathogen.
3	-j u n	allergen, bludgeon, burgeon, collegian, contagion, curmudgeon, dudgeon, dungeon, engine, gudgeon, imagine, legion, margin, neurosurgeon, pigeon, region, religion, smidgen, sturgeon, surgeon, trudgen, virgin.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r"
	-1 letter: ignorance.
	-2 letters: canoeing, cocinera, coercing, crannoge, encoring, recaning.
	-3 letters: acrogen, acronic, aginner, anergic, cannier, canonic, cocaine, coinage, concern, coreign, cornice, corning, craning, crannog, crocein, crocine, earning, engrain, grannie, narcein, nearing, negroni, oceanic, organic.
	-4 letters: aeonic, agonic, ancone, arcing, cagier, cancer, canine, caning, canner, cannie, caring, carnie, cering, cicero, cocain, cognac, coigne, coiner, conger, conine.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-o-r"
	+1 letter: carcinogens, encroaching.
	+2 letters: carcinogenic, cocarcinogen, consecrating, recognizance, recontacting.
	+3 letters: cocarcinogens, concentrating, counteracting, noncarcinogen, recognizances.
	+4 letters: anticarcinogen, carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, cocarcinogenic, concelebrating, deconsecrating, noncarcinogens, reconsecrating.
	+5 letters: anticarcinogens, anticholinergic, carcinogenicity, countercampaign, counterchanging, countercharging, counterclaiming, countermarching, deconcentrating, noncarcinogenic, reconcentrating.
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