WordNet
n. a cell that is part of a malignant tumor
Wikipedia
Cancer Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Cell Press. It covers all aspects of cancer research at the cellular-level. The journal was established in February 2002 and the editor-in-chief is Li-Kuo Su. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 23.533.
Cancer cells are cells that divide relentlessly, forming solid tumours or flooding the blood with abnormal cells. Cell division is a normal process used by the body for growth and repair. A parent cell divides to form two daughter cells, and these daughter cells are used to build new tissue, or to replace cells that have died as a result of ageing or damage. Healthy cells stop dividing when there is no longer a need for more daughter cells, but cancer cells continue to produce copies. They are also able to spread from one part of the body to another in a process known as metastasis.
Usage examples of "cancer cell".
Who would have thought that a sensitized lymphocyte could be fused with a cancer cell to make a kind of cellular antibody factory.
Dana and I had a treatment to shrink our cancer cell telomeres, but we don't want our other telomeres shortened too much or we'll get old real fast.
Judy has glimpsed the Territories, Jack has traveled through them, and the Fisherman lives there the way a cancer cell lives in a healthy organism.
But when an oncogene is activated, the wrong messages are sent to the affected cell and it becomes transformed into a cancer cell.
They were concerned with the development of genetic mutations that render the cancer cell lines more sensitive to common drugs.
The tape probably also shows photographs of the chromatography of the different components of the cancer cell genetic constituents.
Every single cancer cell has a mind of its own, and you can control your cells.
But being bad meant bad thinking, being evil meant being a cancer cell in the society, a dangerous and inexplicable screw-up, and he was not just thinking of ax murderers.
He felt it all over again, but intensified: like a cancer cell getting fat in the flick of an eye, distorting him.
She would have to continue as she and other Titanides had been doing for many kilorevs now, battling the cancer cell by cell.
With a savage whoop, Wintergreen gunned his analogical car down the hypothetical freeway straight for the imaginary cyclist, the cancer cell.
Since He could get into parts of the liver or kidneys where no mortal surgeon could ever reach, delve into the alveoli of the lungs and scrape out the cancer cell-by-goddamned-cell, He could not be allowed to exist.
There were fertile red meadows of epithelial tissue to catch and coddle a cancer cell.
Even Albert Schweitzer's reverence for life didn't include the tapeworm, the tsetse fly, the cancer cell.
Converting into matter, it has to have a form, so it picks the closest living spaceship and replicates it, the way a cancer cell mimics a healthy cell and feeds off it.