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Proliferative vs Propagating - What's the difference?

proliferative | propagating | Related terms |

As an adjective proliferative

is of or pertaining to proliferation, especially of cells.

As a verb propagating is

present participle of propagate.

proliferative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (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."

    See also

    * proliferational ----

    propagating

    English

    Verb

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