oncolysate

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noun

Any material that causes oncolysis

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Meanings

nounoncolysate (plural oncolysates)

plural oncolysates

  1. Any material that causes oncolysis

    Since then, numerous clinical trials have employed wild type NDV strains either as a direct oncolytic agent, or as an oncolysate vaccine for treatment of patients with various types of advanced stage cancer [6,7,8,9,10,11].

    2015, Pascal Buijs et al., “Recombinant Immunomodulating Lentogenic or Mesogenic Oncolytic Newcastle Disease Virus for Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI

Origin

From oncolysis + -ate.

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oncolysate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oncolysate

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“oncolysate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oncolysate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oncolysate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oncolysate.

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