cancer-cell

English

Noun

cancer-cell (plural cancer-cells)

  1. Alternative form of cancer cell
    • 1870, New York Medical Journal, volume 12, page 414:
      Portions of the pectoral muscles were reduced to mere fibres infiltrated with cancer-cells, but contained little fat.
    • 1912, Journal of the American Medical Association:
      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.
    • 1914, Herbert John Paterson, The Surgery of the Stomach:
      A group of cancer-cells is seen infiltrating the muscle.
    • 1983, Philosophical Inquiry, volumes 5-6:
      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".
    • 2010, Nirmal K. Sinha, ‎Y. H. Hui, ‎E. Özgül Evranuz, Handbook of Vegetables and Vegetable Processing:
      Flavonoids found in garlic and onions are being studied for control of cancer-cell proliferation through specific enzyme inhibition (Table 5.3).
    • 2013, Ramesh C. Chandan, ‎Arun Kilara, Manufacturing Yogurt and Fermented Milks:
      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.
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