carcinogen
carcinogen
Definition
car·cino·gen (kär sin′ə jən, -jen′; kär′sə nə-)
Related Forms:
- carcinogenic car′·ci·no·gen′ic (kär′sə nō jen′ik) adjective
- carcinogenesis car′·ci·no·gen′·esis (-jen′ə sis) noun or carcinogenicity car′·ci·no′·genic′ity (-jə nis′ə tē)
carcinogen
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- suspect: Many of these substances are known or suspected carcinogens.
- detect: A key aim was to examine the ability of the individual alternative cancer models to detect human carcinogens.
- know: Some key facts include:- Passive smoke contains over 50 known carcinogens.
- recognize: The cancer-causing chemicals used in the analysis are all recognized carcinogens.
- contain: A cup of coffee contains natural carcinogens equal to at least a year's worth of carcinogenic synthetic residues in the diet.
- identify: Of the animal models assessed there was evidence that p53 +/- transgenic mouse model could identify some genotoxic carcinogens.
Preposition: at
- work: It also says that there is evidence that the numbers exposed to carcinogens at work could be increasing.
Adjective modifier
- genotoxic: In addition appropriate data were already available on a number of genotoxic carcinogens in some of these animal models.
- non-genotoxic: One members asked whether there was any evidence that non-genotoxic carcinogens could induce tumors over a short duration of exposure.
- potent: Aflatoxins are fungal toxins, which are potent carcinogens.
- known: Doll's own pet theory had been tar on the roads, as tar is a known carcinogen.
- probable: Plywood, for example, can contain formaldehyde - a " probable carcinogen " , according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
- suspected: The equivalent German classification lists 17 human and 42 suspected human carcinogens.
Modifies a noun
- assessment: COC draft revised guidelines on chemical carcinogen risk assessment 48.
- risk: COC draft revised guidelines on chemical carcinogen risk assessment 48.
Noun used with modifier
- rodent: Many of the chemical selected for this trial are rodent carcinogens that are not human carcinogens.
- chemical: In June 2004, the COC was provided with a short introduction to the HSE plan for a program of work on chemical carcinogens.
- lung: The comparison with white collar workers was performed to control for other occupational lung carcinogens.
Preposition: in
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