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Definition: Carcinogenic |
CarcinogenicAdjective1. Causing or tending to cause cancer; "the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Producing carcinoma. (references) |
Medicine | Chemical, viral, radioactive or other agent that causes cancer ; That causes cancer; Cancerogenic. Source: European Union. (references) |
| 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) | |
| Producing or tending to produce cancer. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Carcinogenic |
| English words defined with "carcinogenic": benzene, benzine, benzol ♦ calamus oil ♦ dioxin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "carcinogenic": 1-Naphthylamine ♦ 2-Naphthylamine ♦ 3,3'-Dichlorobenzidine ♦ Acetoxyacetylaminofluorene, Aflatoxin M1, Alkylating Agents, Ames test, Anticarcinogenic Agents, Aspergillus flavus ♦ Butylhydroxybutylnitrosamine ♦ carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic effect, carcinogenic substance, Carcinogens, Environmental, Cycasin ♦ Diethylnitrosamine, Diethylstibestrol, Dihydroxydihydrobenzopyrenes, Dimethylnitrosamine, Dioxins ♦ Ethylenethiourea, Ethylnitrosourea ♦ Furylfuramide ♦ harmful dust, Hydroxyacetylaminofluorene ♦ Methylnitronitrosoguanidine, Methylnitrosourea, Mirex ♦ Nitrosamines, Nitrosation, N-Nitrosopyrrolidine ♦ o-Aminoazotoluene ♦ Patulin, Penicillic Acid, probability of causation, Propiolactone, Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids ♦ Receptors, Aryl Hydrocarbon ♦ Safrole, Salmonella-microsome test, Sterigmatocystin. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pictured here is an experimental animal being held by a technician. Only the technician's hands and the animal are visible. The technician measures the size of a reaction of the animal due to a recent injection. A measuring device is being used to achieve the measurement. This may have been a test for the possible carcinogenic effect of a chemical.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |
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Trade | Norway | These provisions are a direct continuation of requirements introduced in 1984 and 1989 governing the declaration and labeling of very toxic, toxic, and carcinogenic substances and products. (references) |
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| "Carcinogenic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Carcinogenic" is used about 90 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 90 | 34,744 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "carcinogenic": carcinogenic agent ♦ carcinogenic effect ♦ carcinogenic substance. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "carcinogenic": non-carcinogenic. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
carcinogenic | 15 |
antigen carcinogenic embryonic | 3 |
angel carcinogenic | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "carcinogenic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 致癌物质 (carcinogen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rakovinotvorný, karcinogenní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | carcinogen (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, initiating agent, initiating factor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carcinogeen (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syöpää aiheuttava aine (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), syöpää aiheuttava, karsinogeeninen, karsinogeeni (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), kanserogeeninen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carcinogène, cancérogène (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), cancérigène, cancérigène, cancérogène, tumorigène, substance cancérogène (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), oncogène, agent cancérogène (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | karzinogen (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, promoter, tumorigenic), krebserzeugend (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), krebserregend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρκινογόνος (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), καρκινογόνο (carcinogen, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), ογκογόνος (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rákkeltő, karcinogén. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cancerogeno (carcinogen, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 発癌性 (cancer causing), 発が"性 (cancer causing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はつが"せい (cancer causing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 발"성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcinogeniccay carcinogênico, carcinogénico (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), carcinogénico, cancerígeno (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), oncogene (oncogene, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), oncogénico (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic). (various references) канцерогенный (carcinogen). (various references) karcinogeni (carcinogen). (various references) carcinoge/nico, carcinogénico (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), carcinógeno (carcinogen, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), cancerigeno, cancerígeno (cancer causing, carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance, oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), substancia cancerígena (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), oncógeno (oncogenic, oncogenous, tumorigenic), agente cancerígeno (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance). (various references) carcinogen (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), cancerogen (carcinogen, carcinogenic agent, carcinogenic substance), cancerframkallande. (various references) kanserojen, kansere yol açan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "carcinogenic": carcinogenicities, carcinogenicity. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "carcinogenic": anticarcinogenic, cocarcinogenic, noncarcinogenic. (additional references) | |
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"Carcinogenic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: carcenogenic, carcinogene, carcinogenics. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "carcinogenic" (pronounced kÄ'rsunōje"nik) |
| 6 | -ō j e" n i k | psychogenic. |
| 5 | -j e" n i k | eugenic, hallucinogenic, orogenic, pathogenic, photogenic, telegenic, transgenic. |
| 4 | -e" n i k | calisthenic, schizophrenic, splenic. |
| 3 | -n i k | allophonic, arsenic, avionic, beatnik, botanic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, clinic, conic, cynic, demonic, diatonic, Dominick, electronic, embryonic, ethnic, galvanic, ganglionic, germanic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, histrionic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, inorganic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, kibbutznik, laconic, leptonic, manic, masonic, mechanic, messianic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monoclinic, monophonic, multiethnic, neotenic, nucleonic, oceanic, organic, ovonic, panic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, polytechnic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, sardonic, satanic, scenic, sonic, Sputnik, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, technic, tectonic, telephonic, Titanic, tonic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, ultrasonic, volcanic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-e-g-i-i-n-n-o-r" | |
-2 letters: carcinogen, cariogenic. | |
-3 letters: cornicing, ignorance, inorganic, recoining. | |
-4 letters: arginine, canoeing, ciceroni, cocinera, coercing, crannoge, encoring, reaginic, recaning. | |
-5 letters: acrogen, acronic, aginner, anergic, anionic, cannier, canonic, cinerin, cocaine, coinage, coining, concern, coniine, coreign, cornice, corning, craning, crannog, crocein, crocine, earning, engrain, ginnier, grannie, ingrain, ironing, narcein, nearing, negroni, oceanic, oneiric, organic, raining, reining. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-e-g-i-i-n-n-o-r" | |
+2 letters: cocarcinogenic. | |
+3 letters: carcinogenicity, noncarcinogenic. | |
+4 letters: anticarcinogenic. | |
+5 letters: carcinogenicities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 63 69 6E 6F 67 65 6E 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -.-. .. -. --- --. . -. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100011 01101001 01101110 01101111 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r c i n o g e n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0063 0069 006E 006F 0067 0065 006E 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)376784697580817371807569 |
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