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tumorosphere

tumorosphere noun: a spherical culture of tumor cells.

Noun

tumorosphere (plural tumorospheres)

  1. A spherical culture of tumor cells
    • Highly malignant MSDACs that were derived from metastatic sites exhibited CSC status and exerted robust tumorosphere formations ex vivo.2015 July 10, Faizan H. Khan et al., “Acquired genetic alterations in tumor cells dictate the development of high-risk neuroblastoma and clinical outcomes”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI

Forms of tumorosphere

pluraltumorospheres

Origin of tumorosphere

From tumor + -o- + -sphere.

Questions about tumorosphere

What does tumorosphere mean?
Tumorosphere means a spherical culture of tumor cells.
What part of speech is tumorosphere?
Tumorosphere is a noun.
What is the plural of tumorosphere?
The plural of tumorosphere is tumorospheres.

Words near tumorosphere in the dictionary

  1. tumorogenicity
  2. tumoroid
  3. tumoroids
  4. tumorolytic
  5. tumoromics
  6. tumorosphere
  7. tumorospheres
  8. tumorostatic
  9. tumorous
  10. Tumorrama
  11. tumors

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