Definition of "suppresser" []

Variant of suppressor. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "suppresser" in a sentence

"What HPV seems to do is turn off some of the -- what are known as tumor-suppresser genes."
"What HPV seems to do, it seems to turn off some of what are known as tumor-suppresser genes."
"It may involve loss of suppresser genes that usually restrict abnormal cell growth."

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