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CARCINOGENIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Causing or tending to cause cancer
Example:
the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)
Derivation:
carcinogen (any substance that produces cancer)
Context examples:
A synthetic organic agent, N-nitroso-N-methylurethane is carcinogenic in all species tested.
(N-nitroso-N-methylurethane, NCI Thesaurus)
Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) mends DNA regions that contain chemical adducts, such as UV-induced thymine dimers or carcinogenic adducts, which distort the DNA helix and interfere with replication and transcription.
(Nucleotide Excision Repair, NCI Thesaurus)
Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER) Inhibition involves interference with, or restraint of, the activities that mend DNA regions containing chemical adducts, carcinogenic adducts, or thymine dimers.
(Nucleotide Excision Repair Inhibition, NCI Thesaurus)
Many of these carcinogenic chemicals will frequently contain hydrogen with or without oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus, and other elements.
(Organic Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)
A synthetic thiacetic acid derivative used in biomedical research, carcinogenic Pirinixic acid is a peroxisome proliferator that activates specific peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR).
(Pirinixic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)
A compound with carcinogenic properties that contains an -NO group.
(Nitroso Carcinogen, NCI Thesaurus)
Some nitrosamines show carcinogenic activity; under certain conditions, nitrite-containing foods can form nitrosamines.
(Nitrosamine Metabolism, NCI Thesaurus)
This substance is teratogenic and carcinogenic in animals and is reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen.
(Nitrofen, NCI Thesaurus)
Any of a class of organic compounds with the general formula R2NNO or RNHNO, present in various foods and other products and found to be carcinogenic in laboratory animals.
(Nitrosamine, NCI Thesaurus)
A yellowish, odorless, viscous, oily carcinogenic chlorinated hydrocarbon.
(Chlorinated Paraffin, NCI Thesaurus)
