carcinogenesis

English

Etymology

carcino- +‎ -genesis

Noun

carcinogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural carcinogeneses)

1. (oncology) The creation of cancer cells.

   Hyponyms: carcinomagenesis, sarcomagenesis

   • 1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds, page 185:

     Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.

Derived terms

• adenocarcinogenesis
• anticarcinogenesis
• cholangiocarcinogenesis
• cocarcinogenesis
• hepatocarcinogenesis
• nephrocarcinogenesis
• neurocarcinogenesis
• photocarcinogenesis
• teratocarcinogenesis

 

Related terms

• carcinogen
• carcinogenetic

 

Translations

the creation of cancer cells

• Greek: καρκινογένεση (el) f (karkinogénesi)
• Hungarian: karcinogenezis (hu)
• Irish: carcanaigineas m
• Japanese: 発癌 (ja) (はつがん, hatsugan)
• Polish: karcynogeneza, kancerogeneza (pl), karcinogeneza f
• Romanian: carcinogeneză (ro) f, cancerogeneză (ro) f

See also

• carcinogenesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia