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epitheliotropic

epitheliotropic adjective: having an affinity for, or moving towards the epithelium.

Adjective

epitheliotropic (not comparable)

  1. Having an affinity for, or moving towards the epithelium
    • HPVs whether they are low-risk and high-risk are epitheliotropic.2015 April 17, Lifang Zhang et al., “The role of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signalling pathway in human cancers induced by infection with human papillomaviruses”, in Molecular Cancer, volume 14, →DOI

Origin of epitheliotropic

From epithelio- + -tropic.

Words formed from epitheliotropic

Words that rhyme with epitheliotropic

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Questions about epitheliotropic

What does epitheliotropic mean?
Epitheliotropic means having an affinity for, or moving towards the epithelium.
What part of speech is epitheliotropic?
Epitheliotropic is an adjective.

Words near epitheliotropic in the dictionary

  1. epitheliomuscular
  2. epitheliopathies
  3. epitheliopathy
  4. epitheliosis
  5. epitheliotrophic
  6. epitheliotropic
  7. epitheliotropism
  8. epithelisation
  9. epithelise
  10. epithelium
  11. epitheliums

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