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mastoncus

mastoncus noun: breast cancer.

Noun

mastoncus (uncountable)

  1. (dated) breast cancer
    • Characterization of NYD-SP8 (A) RT-PCR analysis of NYD-SP8 mRNA expression levels in malignant lymphoma (1); adenocarcinoma of kidney (2); colon cancer (3); mastoncus (4); lung cancer (5); oesophageal cancer (6); gastric carcinoma (7); negative control (8). β-actin was used as internal control.2008 November 6, Lan lan Yin et al., “A suppressor of multiple extracellular matrix-degrading proteases and cancer metastasis”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 13, →DOI

Origin of mastoncus

See masto- and onco-.

Questions about mastoncus

What does mastoncus mean?
Mastoncus means breast cancer.
What part of speech is mastoncus?
Mastoncus is a noun.

Words near mastoncus in the dictionary

  1. mastological
  2. mastologist
  3. mastologists
  4. mastology
  5. Maston
  6. mastoncus
  7. Mastons
  8. mastoparan
  9. mastoparans
  10. mastopathic
  11. mastopathies

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