cancer-cell
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.60 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Portions of the pectoral muscles were reduced to mere fibres infiltrated with cancer-cells, but contained little fat."
- "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."
- "A group of cancer-cells is seen infiltrating the muscle."
- "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"."
- "Flavonoids found in garlic and onions are being studied for control of cancer-cell proliferation through specific enzyme inhibition (Table 5.3)."
- "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."