epigenotoxic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Capable of causing damage to the way by DNA sequences are activated or deactivated, leading to cancer.
Example Sentences
- "BD is also an epigenotoxic agent. BD-induced genotoxic and epigenotoxic events have been shown to be due to interstrain differences (Koturbashet al.,2011)."
- "1,3-Butadiene is a common carcinogenic environmental contaminant and is considered an epigenotoxic agent (i.e., it affects DNA and histone methylation)."