Microenvironment Definition

mīkrō-ĕn-vīrən-mənt, -vīərn-
microenvironments
noun
The environmental conditions of a relatively small, localized area, esp. of a microhabitat.
Webster's New World
The area directly surrounding an organism or part of an organism, especially when it differs from the larger environment.
The tumor microenvironment.
American Heritage Medicine
The immediate conditions or circumstances.
A company's microenvironment.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Microenvironment

Noun

Singular:
microenvironment
Plural:
microenvironments

Microenvironment Sentence Examples

  • The granuloma thus provides a complex, local microenvironment in which leucocytes interact to effect pathogen clearance or to ensure their containment.

  • Two potentially competing processes occur in the inflammatory microenvironment.

  • In myeloma, bortezomib affects the ability of myeloma cells to interact with the bone marrow microenvironment.

  • Issue 4 March 2001 Contains articles on endocrinology in aging, the tumor microenvironment and the cell cycle.

  • The capsules, or bioreactors, permit the release of recombinant proteins that may assert their effects in the tumor microenvironment.

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