Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oncometabolite

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: on-cometabo-lite
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any metabolite that is associated with a cancer

Example Sentences

"Due to this pleiotropic function for dysregulating biological events, 2-HG is regarded as an oncometabolite that exerts tumor-inducing actions, and searches for IDH gene mutations have been performed in various types of malignancies [1 ,2 ]."

Etymology

From onco- + metabolite.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: onco

Inflected Forms

oncometabolites (plural)

Questions

What does oncometabolite mean?: Any metabolite that is associated with a cancer
Where does oncometabolite come from?: From onco- + metabolite.

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