cancer cell-like

English

Etymology

From cancer cell +‎ -like.

Adjective

cancer cell-like (comparative more cancer cell-like, superlative most cancer cell-like)

  1. Characteristic of or resembling a cancer cell.
    • 2020, Tuuli Käämbre, ‎Rafael Moreno-Sánchez, ‎Sara Rodriguez-Enriquez, Metabolic Plasticity of Cancer, page 44:
      In this study we test whether normal stem cells can survive under the same conditions due to cancer cell-like metabolic adaptations.
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