overproliferate

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verb

To proliferate excessively.

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Meanings

verboverproliferate (third-person singular simple present overproliferates, present participle overproliferating, simple past and past participle overproliferated)

present singular third person overproliferates · participle present overproliferating · participle past overproliferated · past overproliferated

  1. To proliferate excessively.

    The Ras and Notch-driven epithelial tumors develop in the eye-antennal imaginal disc which is not thought to contain epithelial stem cells, however, the eye disc does contain progenitor cells that can also overproliferate in response to excessive STAT activity.

    2015 July 25, “BTB-Zinc Finger Oncogenes Are Required for Ras and Notch-Driven Tumorigenesis in Drosophila”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From over- + proliferate.

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Chicago

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