cancer-cell

plural cancer-cells

1. alternativeAlternative form of cancer cell

   A group of cancer-cells is seen infiltrating the muscle.

   1914, Herbert John Paterson, The Surgery of the Stomach

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   Portions of the pectoral muscles were reduced to mere fibres infiltrated with cancer-cells, but contained little fat.

   1870, New York Medical Journal, volume 12, page 414

   If we bleed a rabbit at the height of this transitory sensitization and obtain the serum, this, when mixed with cancer-cell emulsion and incubated for one hour, will produce marked symptoms of poisoning when injected intravenously into a normal rabbit.

   1912, Journal of the American Medical Association

   In the same vein, in the context of biochemistry, cancer-cells are not a pathological phenomenon; in that context there is no place for normative attributes such as "wrong" and "right".

   1983, Philosophical Inquiry, volumes 5-6

   Flavonoids found in garlic and onions are being studied for control of cancer-cell proliferation through specific enzyme inhibition (Table 5.3).

   2010, Nirmal K. Sinha, Y. H. Hui, E. Özgül Evranuz, Handbook of Vegetables and Vegetable Processing

   Several types of fermented milk, including yogurt, colostrum fermented with Lb. delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus, Str. thermophilus and Lb. acidophilus or milk fermented with Lb. helveticus, are reported to suppress cancer-cell growth.

   2013, Ramesh C. Chandan, Arun Kilara, Manufacturing Yogurt and Fermented Milks