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noun

Proliferation n.

(Biol.) The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.

(Zool.) The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

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Etymology of 'Proliferation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Proliferation" Quotes from Famous Books

... interlock by perfect serrated sutures.[723] But most physiologists, especially on the Continent, have now given up the belief in plastic lymph or blastema, and Virchow[724] maintains that every structure, new or old, is formed by the proliferation of pre-existing cells. On this view false membranes, like cancerous or other tumours, are merely abnormal developments of normal growths; and we can thus understand how it is that they resemble adjoining structures; ...

— The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) • Charles Darwin

... continued to talk with his eyes fixed as it were upon his thoughts. "These things, Lady Harman, go on at different paces in different regions. I will not trouble you with a discussion of that, or of emigration, of any of the details of the vast proliferation that preceded the present phase. Suffice it, that now all the tendency is back towards restraints upon increase, to an increasing celibacy, to a fall in the birth-rate and in the average size of families, to—to a release of women from an entire devotion to a numerous ...

— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... filled when we find the iris growing a lens. Loeb attempts to explain this in the first instance by telling us that the cells of the iris cannot grow and develop as long as they are pigmented; that the operation wounds the iris, allows pigment to escape, and thus permits of proliferation. We may accept this, and yet ask why it takes on a form of growth familiar to us only in connection with epiblast? The reply is: "Young cells when put into the optic cup always become transparent, no matter what their origin; it looks ...

— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

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