cancerize

English

Etymology

From cancer +‎ -ize.

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.
   • 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:

     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.

Related terms

• cancerized