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oncolysate

oncolysate noun: any material that causes oncolysis.

Noun

oncolysate (plural oncolysates)

  1. Any material that causes oncolysis
    • Since then, numerous clinical trials have employed wild type NDV strains either as a direct oncolytic agent, or as an oncolysate vaccine for treatment of patients with various types of advanced stage cancer [6,7,8,9,10,11].2015, Pascal Buijs et al., “Recombinant Immunomodulating Lentogenic or Mesogenic Oncolytic Newcastle Disease Virus for Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma”, in Viruses, volume 7, →DOI

Forms of oncolysate

pluraloncolysates

Origin of oncolysate

From oncolysis + -ate.

Questions about oncolysate

What does oncolysate mean?
Oncolysate means any material that causes oncolysis.
What part of speech is oncolysate?
Oncolysate is a noun.
What is the plural of oncolysate?
The plural of oncolysate is oncolysates.

Words near oncolysate in the dictionary

  1. oncologically
  2. oncologies
  3. oncologist
  4. oncologists
  5. oncology
  6. oncolysate
  7. oncolysates
  8. oncolyses
  9. oncolysis
  10. oncolytic
  11. oncolytics

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