Mitogen

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any substance that stimulates mitosis
  2. 2
    an agent that triggers mitosis wordnet

Etymology

From mitosis (“cell division”) + -gen (“a producer of something”).

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