tumorosphere

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English

Etymology

From tumor +‎ -o- +‎ -sphere.

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Noun

tumorosphere (plural tumorospheres)

  1. A spherical culture of tumor cells
    • 2015 July 10, Faizan H. Khan et al., “Acquired genetic alterations in tumor cells dictate the development of high-risk neuroblastoma and clinical outcomes”, in BMC Cancer, volume 15, →DOI:
      Highly malignant MSDACs that were derived from metastatic sites exhibited CSC status and exerted robust tumorosphere formations ex vivo.