Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mitogenic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English

Syllables: mi-to-genic
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to a mitogen.

adj

Causing mitosis.

Example Sentences

"Cell-mediated immunity is impaired after burn injury, including documented delays in allograft rejection, impairment in mitogenic and anogenic responsiveness of lymphocytes, burn-size-related suppression of graftversus-host activity, suppression of delayed cutaneous sensitivity tests, and diminution of peripheral lymphocytes and thoracic duct lymphocyte concentration."

Etymology

From mitogen + -ic or mito- + -genic.

Inflected Forms

more mitogenic (comparative) most mitogenic (superlative)

Derived Forms

antimitogenic comitogenic hepatomitogenic hypermitogenic mitogenically mitogenicity promitogenic submitogenic supramitogenic

Questions

What does mitogenic mean?: Of or relating to a mitogen.
Where does mitogenic come from?: From mitogen + -ic or mito- + -genic.

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