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tumoritropic

tumoritropic adjective: associated with, or attracted towards a tumor.

Adjective

tumoritropic (not comparable)

  1. Associated with, or attracted towards a tumor
    • Accordingly, we develop simulations of vascularized tumor growth to deliver spherical NPs and to track their tumoritropic distribution, accumulation and drug release.2015 December 15, “Computational Modeling of Tumor Response to Drug Release from Vasculature-Bound Nanoparticles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of tumoritropic

From tumor + -tropic.

Questions about tumoritropic

What does tumoritropic mean?
Tumoritropic means associated with, or attracted towards a tumor.
What part of speech is tumoritropic?
Tumoritropic is an adjective.

Words near tumoritropic in the dictionary

  1. tumorigenic
  2. tumorigenically
  3. tumorigenicities
  4. tumorigenicity
  5. tumoristatic
  6. tumoritropic
  7. tumorized
  8. tumorless
  9. tumorlike
  10. tumorogenesis
  11. tumorogenic

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