Word.ws English Dictionary

oncolytic

oncolytic adjective: that breaks up cancer cells.

Adjective

oncolytic (comparative more oncolytic, superlative most oncolytic)

  1. That breaks up cancer cells.

Noun

oncolytic (plural oncolytics)

  1. Any drug or substance that breaks up cancer cells.

Forms of oncolytic

Adjective
comparativemore oncolytic
superlativemost oncolytic
Noun
pluraloncolytics

Origin of oncolytic

From onco- + -lytic.

Questions about oncolytic

What does oncolytic mean?
Oncolytic means that breaks up cancer cells.
What part of speech is oncolytic?
Oncolytic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near oncolytic in the dictionary

  1. oncology
  2. oncolysate
  3. oncolysates
  4. oncolyses
  5. oncolysis
  6. oncolytic
  7. oncolytics
  8. oncom
  9. oncomarker
  10. oncomarkers
  11. oncome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: oncolytic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “oncolytic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oncolytic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.