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English
Etymology
From proliferate + -ive.
Adjective
proliferative (comparative more proliferative, superlative most proliferative)
- (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, 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, 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”, in 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.
Derived terms
Noun
proliferative (plural proliferatives)
- Such a cell
See also
Italian
Adjective
proliferative f pl
- feminine plural of proliferativo