proliferative

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proliferative (comparative more proliferative, superlative most proliferative)

(not comparable, cytology) of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells
- 1988, Nydia G. Testa & Robert Peter Gale, Hematopoiesis: Long-Term Effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation, Informa Health Care, ISBN 082477938X, page 327:
  ...stem cells may thus lose some of their proliferative potential and thus 'age'...
- 2000, Yvonne A. & Christopher R. Barnett, Aging: Methods and Protocols, Humana Press, ISBN 0896035824, page 40:
  cultures of cells may be considered to have reached the end of their proliferative lifespan when the cell number fails to double.
- 2007, Eduardo M. Torres et al., "Effects of Aneuploidy on Cellular Physiology and Cell Division in Haploid Yeast," Science 317(5840), 904, page 916:
  We conclude that aneuploidy causes not only a proliferative disadvantage but also a set of phenotypes...
proliferating; tending to proliferate
- 1940, Albert B. Sabin and Joel Warren, "The Curative Effect of Certain Gold Compounds on Experimental Proliferative, Chronic Arthritis in Mice," Journal of Bacteriology 40(6):
  ...they give rise to a progressive, proliferative, chronic arthritis.

proliferative (plural proliferatives)

proliferative

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