adaptive disease

adaptive disease

[ə′dap·tiv di‚zēz]
(physiology)
The physiologic changes impairing an organism's health as the result of exposure to an unfamiliar environment.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Rather, cancers are very adaptive diseases, requiring attacking them from multiple directions."
Certain Genetic Characteristics Of Fetal Stem Cells May Lead To Breast Cancer
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