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carcinoembryonic

carcinoembryonic adjective: describing any material (but especially a glycoprotein) that is present in patients with some cancers and also in healthy fetuses.

Adjective

carcinoembryonic (not comparable)

  1. Describing any material (but especially a glycoprotein) that is present in patients with some cancers and also in healthy fetuses

Origin of carcinoembryonic

From carcino- + embryonic.

Words formed from carcinoembryonic

  • carcinoembryonic antigen

Questions about carcinoembryonic

What does carcinoembryonic mean?
Carcinoembryonic means describing any material (but especially a glycoprotein) that is present in patients with some cancers and also in healthy fetuses.
What part of speech is carcinoembryonic?
Carcinoembryonic is an adjective.

Words near carcinoembryonic in the dictionary

  1. carcinocytes
  2. carcinoecia
  3. carcinoecium
  4. carcinoembrionic
  5. carcinoembryogenic
  6. carcinoembryonic
  7. carcinogen
  8. carcinogeneses
  9. carcinogenesis
  10. carcinogenetic
  11. carcinogenic

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