oncogenic
English edit
Etymology edit
From onco- (“tumor”) + -genic (“producing”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Adjective edit
oncogenic (not comparable)
- Causing the formation of tumors. [from 20th c.]
- oncogenic viruses
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 554:
- From the late 1960s research into oncogenic viruses was particularly advanced by David Baltimore (b. 1938) and Howard Tenin (1934–94), who simultaneously published a report of the discovery of an enzyme reverse transcriptase.
- Caused by tumors: tumor-induced.
- oncogenic osteomalacia