hypoploidy

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English

Etymology

From hypo- +‎ ploidy.

Noun

hypoploidy (countable and uncountable, plural hypoploidies)

  1. The condition of being hypoploid
    • 2015 July 3, Andrea Mohr, Rui Yu, Ralf M. Zwacka, “TRAIL-receptor preferences in pancreatic cancer cells revisited: Both TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2 have a licence to kill”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI:
      Apoptosis was measured according to Nicoletti et al. (DNA hypoploidy assay) and has been described previously [ 42, 43 ].

Antonyms

  • hypodiploidy, hypoploidy in diploid organisms (including humans)