brca
/ˌbrækə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Initialism of Brotherhood (of) Railway Carmen of America.
noun
Any of a number of genes and proteins associated with breast cancer, especially BRCA1 and BRCA2.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The writer David Samuels, a friend since childhood, said the cause was metastatic breast cancer, which in her case had resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. Ms. Wurtzel had a double mastectomy in 2015. After her diagnosis, she became an advocate for BRCA testing — something she had not had — and wrote about her cancer experience in The New York Times."