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Vinony

cancerize

verb

  1. to make cancerous, affect with cancer
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From cancer + -ize.

  1. To make cancerous; to affect with cancer.

    “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.”