Cigarette Smoke Exposure Ontology

Last uploaded: July 10, 2014
Preferred Name

Cytotoxicity
Synonyms
ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Cytotoxicity

DEFINITION

The adverse effect of some iatrogenic therapies. It is an accepted side effect in radiation therapy where the desired effect is to kill rapidly growing tumor cells. In the killing of tumor cells, other cells that are rapidly growing e.g hair, mucous membranes are also killed.

FULL_SYN

Lytotoxicity

isDefinedBy

The adverse effect of some iatrogenic therapies. It is an accepted side effect in radiation therapy where the desired effect is to kill rapidly growing tumor cells. In the killing of tumor cells, other cells that are rapidly growing e.g hair, mucous membranes are also killed.

label

Cytotoxicity

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:Cytotoxicity

prefLabel

Cytotoxicity

Synonym

Lytotoxicity

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#Toxicity

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