growth factor


noun
  1. any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.

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How to use growth factor in a sentence

  • The latter may or may not have a sufficiently high growth factor.

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  • As a group, they possessed a growth factor forcing them beyond the confines of the culture in which they lived.

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British Dictionary definitions for growth factor

growth factor

noun
  1. any of several substances present in serum that induce growth of cells. Excessive amounts of growth factor may be associated with the production of cancer cells

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