cancer cell

Noun

Meaning

a cell that is part of a malignant tumor

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

cancer-cell

Hypernyms

Examples

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. Edward Abbey

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. Jonas Salk

Perpetual growth is the creed of the cancer cell. Paul R. Ehrlich

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel. Siddhartha Mukherjee

After that he realized that there is not much "symmetry between a cancer cell and a normal one. Source: Internet

Cancer cells take up these molecules at an increased rate because of an upregulation of transporters in the cancer cell, in this case amino acid transporters will bring in the L-arginine and L-phenylalanine functional groups of the fullerenes. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms