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Synonyms for carcinogenic
car·cino·genic
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Princeton's WordNet
carcinogenicadjective
causing or tending to cause cancer
"the carcinogenic action of certain chemicals"
Editors Contribution
oncogenic
the propensity of something to create cancerous tumours.
tobacco smoke has been found to be carcinogenic. tobacco smoke has been found to be oncogenic.
Submitted by funwithrcs on November 15, 2019
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How to use carcinogenic in a sentence?
This study will, I hope, help to eliminate the incorrect impression ... that some meat products are as carcinogenic as cigarette smoke, and to discourage dramatic media headlines claiming that 'bacon is killing us'.
In addition to inhaling toxicants and carcinogens found in the hookah tobacco smoke, hookah smokers, and non-smokers who socialize with them, also inhale large quantities of charcoal combustion-generated toxic and carcinogenic emissions.
You can’t be neutral when people are being harmed, that’s like telling people who did studies on the carcinogenic effects of tobacco smoke to be neutral about smoking.
Last year the IARC said that bacon is carcinogenic, but it became clear that when eaten in moderation it is not very risky. In the case of very hot drinks, the IARC concludes they are probably hazardous, but can't say how big the risk might be, this may be interesting science, but makes it difficult to construct a sensible response.
Next step is to warn librarians and readers of old books to wear protective gloves, and to advise libraries to store any green painted old books in a dry, dark environment out of harm’s way of people inhaling the air above the books, the reason for the latter recommendation is that arsenic has a tendency to transform to the airborne arsine (AsH3) given the right conditions of humidity and light. Besides the toxicity, arsenic is also carcinogenic.
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- مسرطنةArabic
- karcinogenníCzech
- καρκινογόνοςGreek
- cancerígenoSpanish
- karsinogeeninenFinnish
- cancérigèneFrench
- carcanaigineachIrish
- rákkeltő, rákokozó, karcinogénHungarian
- քաղցկեղածինArmenian
- 発癌性Japanese
- cancerígenoPortuguese
- carcinogen, cancerigenRomanian
- канцерогенныйRussian
- kancerogen, karcinogenSerbo-Croatian
- carcinogenSwedish
- புற்றுண்டாக்கக்கூடியTamil
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