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TNF

TNF is the initialism of tumor necrosis factor.

Meaning of tumor necrosis factor

Noun

tumor necrosis factor (plural tumor necrosis factors)

  1. Any of several polypeptide hormones, produced by macrophages, that can destroy some cancer cells.

Words formed from TNF

Phrases with TNF

Questions about TNF

What is TNF the initialism of?
TNF is the initialism of tumor necrosis factor.

Words near TNF in the dictionary

  1. TNC
  2. TNCA
  3. TNCs
  4. TND
  5. TNEF
  6. TNF
  7. TNF inhibitor
  8. TNF inhibitors
  9. TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome
  10. TNFi
  11. tng

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TNF (page history and authors); tumor necrosis factor (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.

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