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oncogenic

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Etymology

From onco- (“tumor”) +‎ -genic (“producing”).

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oncogenic (not comparable)

  2. Causing the formation of tumors. [from 20th c.]
    Synonym: oncogenous
    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.
  4. Arising from or caused by a tumor: tumor-induced.
    Synonym: oncogenous
    oncogenic osteomalacia

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