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carcinogenicity

carcinogenicity

1 9.4
The ability of a substance to cause cancer
  • noun
  • /ˌkɑːrsɪnədʒəˈnɪsɪti/
  • Specialized
: carcinogenicidad
  • All five strategies measure toxicity in terms of acute and chronic toxicity, as well as carcinogenicity or teratogenicity.
  • evidence of carcinogenicity
  • human carcinogenicity

Examples

  • R.V., E.G., and K.S. participated as part of the Working Group in the evaluation of the carcinogenicity of diesel engine exhaust by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France (June 2012).

    Academic text (2014)
  • Different or additional parameters, such as persistence, bioaccumulation, and aquatic-toxicity potential, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and reproductive toxicity (CMR), may be needed for detailed analysis.

    Academic text (2007)
  • And it turns out that carcinogenicity is a bedrock, an indeterministic process.

  • The vast majority of the literature assessing arsenic for carcinogenicity has focused on adults.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I think it's mainly the carcinogenicity that is referred to by crude oil's toxicity.

    Blog text (14)
  • This model system has also been used to help elucidate the mechanism(s) of hormonal carcinogenicity (McClain et al. 2001).

    Academic text (2014)
  • The IARC (1987) evaluated fluoride carcinogenicity and concluded that human and animal evidence was inadequate (Table 3).

    Academic text (2014)
  • As noted in this chapter, while bioassay data from experimental animals provide substantial presumptive evidence of human carcinogenicity of TCDD, actual verification must, of course, come from human studies.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The carcinogenicity assessments for trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene were withdrawn by the EPA in 1992 for further review and evaluation (12-13).

    Academic text (1994)
  • Research shows a clear link between smoking and the carcinogenicity of tobacco products.

Synonyms

tumorigenicity
vscarcinogenicity
  • Specialized
1 9.8

Ability to make harmful lumps of cells grow in the body

refers specifically to causing malignant disease rather than general growths

How Tumorigenic

carcinogenicity
  • Specialized
1 9.4
tumorigenicity
  • Specialized
1 9.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

carcinogenicity = carcinogenic (semi-transparent) = carcinogen + ic + ity

Formation from 'carcinogenic' + '-ity' is regular, but the stem 'carcin-' (medical combining form for cancer) may be unfamiliar to an average B1 learner.

Etymology

Carcinogenicity comes from the root carcin-, from Greek for 'crab' that people used to name the disease 'cancer', plus -genic meaning 'causing' and -ity meaning 'state'. So carcinogenicity is the 'ability to cause cancer'.