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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The origination or production of cancer. (references) |
Health | The process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells. (references) |
Medicine | The process encompassing the conversion of normal cells to neoplastic cells and the further development of neoplastic cells into a tumor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CARCINOGENESIS |
| Specialty definitions using "CARCINOGENESIS": Anticarcinogenic Agents ♦ chemopreventive ♦ Mice, Inbred SENCAR ♦ Phosphotyrosine, Protein-Tyrosine-Phosphatase. (references) |
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Around 1944, H. Meyer set up mice for radiation exposure investigations by A. Nettleship and P. Henshaw. The carcinogenesis of urethane was discovered in the course of these experiements. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Pictured is a lab at the Frederick Cancer Research and Development Facility (FCRDF). A technician is seen in a series of pictures performing cell culture work. Noticeable is the yellow glow of ultraviolet light, which maintains the sterile conditions in the lab. These cell cultures are used for in vitro carcinogenesis assays. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | ||
![]() | Three stages of carcinogenesis. Steps altered by alcohol consumption are marked by an asterisk. Credit: NIAA. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | In summary, if there is any causal relationship between H. pylori infection and gastric cancer, clearly other factors are also important in gastric carcinogenesis. (references) | |
Although it is clear hormones are involved in increased cell proliferation and hormone-initiated carcinogenesis, the biochemical and molecular mechanisms involved in the initiation and promotion of tumorigenesis are not fully understood. (references) | ||
A hormonal role in carcinogenesis was first reported by G. T. Beatson in an 1898 Lancet article, which described a reduction of breast cancer in women whose ovaries had been surgically removed, resulting in greatly lowered estrogen levels. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CARCINOGENESIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CARCINOGENESIS" is used about 43 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% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 "CARCINOGENESIS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | carcinogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), cancerogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), kræftfremkaldende virkning (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | carcinogenesis (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), carcinogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), cancerogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | karsinogeneesi (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | carcinogenèse (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), cancérogenèse (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Krebsentstehung (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), Karzinogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), Kanzerogenese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρκινογένεσις (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), καρκινογένεση (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect, carcinogenicity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | carcinogenesi (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), cancerogenesi (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect, carcinogenicity), origine e sviluppo delle neoplasie (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), oncogenesi (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 発癌 (cancer causing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | はつが" (cancer causing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | arcinogenesiscay carcinogénese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect), cancerogénese (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) carcinogénesis (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect, carcinogenicity). (various references) carcinogenes (cancerogenesis, carcinogenic effect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-2 letters: accessioning. | |
-3 letters: carcinogens, reaccession, reseasoning. | |
-4 letters: arccosines, carcinogen, cariogenic, coagencies, coarsening, concierges, congeneric, consignees, ensigncies, graininess, ignorances, increasing, incrossing, ingression, isocracies, nascencies, reasonings, recensions, recognises, recoinages, regnancies, resonances, screenings, seignories, signorinas. | |
-5 letters: accessing, accession, angriness, anserines, arccosine, arginines, ascension, canneries, canonises, canonries, careening, caressing, censoring, cicerones, cocineras, cogencies, concierge, congeners, congeries, consignee, cornicing, corniness. | |
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