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oncotripsy

oncotripsy noun: the selective targeting of cancer tissue.

Noun

oncotripsy

  1. The selective targeting of cancer tissue.
    • We investigate a method of selectively targeting cancer cells by means of ultrasound harmonic excitation at their resonance frequency, which we refer to as oncotripsy.2015, Stefanie Heyden, Michael Ortiz, “Oncotripsy: Targeting cancer cells selectively via resonant harmonic excitation”, in arXiv

Questions about oncotripsy

What does oncotripsy mean?
Oncotripsy means the selective targeting of cancer tissue.
What part of speech is oncotripsy?
Oncotripsy is a noun.

Words near oncotripsy in the dictionary

  1. oncotherapies
  2. oncotherapy
  3. oncotic
  4. oncotomies
  5. oncotomy
  6. oncotripsy
  7. oncotropic
  8. oncotropism
  9. oncotype
  10. oncotypes
  11. oncovaccine

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