"cancerize" meaning in All languages combined

See cancerize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: cancerizes [present, singular, third-person], cancerizing [participle, present], cancerized [participle, past], cancerized [past]
Etymology: From cancer + -ize. Etymology templates: {{af|en|cancer|-ize}} cancer + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} cancerize (third-person singular simple present cancerizes, present participle cancerizing, simple past and past participle cancerized)
  1. (transitive, rare) To make cancerous; to affect with cancer. Tags: rare, transitive Related terms: cancerized
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  "etymology_text": "From cancer + -ize.",
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        {
          "ref": "1962, R. Latarjet, J-F. Duplan, L. Chamaillard, P. Monnot, A. Palaysi, “Experiment and discussion on leukaemogenesis by cell-free extracts of radiation-induced leukaemia in mice”, in International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 342:",
          "text": "We have just seen the C57 BI mice are sensitive to the extract of radioleukaemia—as young AkR are sensitive to superinfection with the AkR virus. This fact is not favourable to the proviral hypothesis. However, it does not rule it out if one supposes that the ‘virogenized’ cells may be different from those which the virus cancerizes.",
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        "(transitive, rare) To make cancerous; to affect with cancer."
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          "ref": "1962, R. Latarjet, J-F. Duplan, L. Chamaillard, P. Monnot, A. Palaysi, “Experiment and discussion on leukaemogenesis by cell-free extracts of radiation-induced leukaemia in mice”, in International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 342:",
          "text": "We have just seen the C57 BI mice are sensitive to the extract of radioleukaemia—as young AkR are sensitive to superinfection with the AkR virus. This fact is not favourable to the proviral hypothesis. However, it does not rule it out if one supposes that the ‘virogenized’ cells may be different from those which the virus cancerizes.",
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