somatic mutation theory of cancer
n.
The theory that cancer is caused by a mutation or mutations in the body cells, rather than germ cells, especially by nonlethal mutations associated with increased proliferation of the mutant cells.
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somatic death,
somatic delusion,
somatic motor neuron,
somatic motor nucleus,
somatic mutation,
somatic mutation theory of cancer,
somatic nerve,
somatic nervous system,
somatic reproduction,
somatic sensory cortex,
somatic swallow