CYTOTOXICITY

cytotoxicity

(noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

cytotoxicity (countable and uncountable, plural cytotoxicities)

(biology) the property of being toxic to a cell

Antonyms

• cytocompatibility

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

13 November 2024

OSTENSIBLE

(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”


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Coffee Trivia

An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.

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