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SURVIVAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something that survives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):
continuance; continuation (the act of continuing an activity without interruption)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "survival"):
custom; usage; usance (accepted or habitual practice)
hangover; holdover (something that has survived from the past)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
Synonyms:
natural selection; selection; survival; survival of the fittest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A state of surviving; remaining alive
Synonyms:
endurance; survival
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("survival" is a kind of...):
aliveness; animation; life; living (the condition of living or the state of being alive)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "survival"):
subsistence (a means of surviving)
Derivation:
survive (support oneself)
survive (continue to live and avoid dying)
survive (continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.))
Context examples:
The overall survival rate for both groups was 93.9 percent and 93.8 percent, respectively.
(Study: Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, VOA)
In addition, this agent may stimulate an anti-FLT3 antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) against FLT3-expressing tumor cells, which may result in the inhibition of cellular proliferation and survival in FLT3-expressing cells.
(Anti-FLT3 Monoclonal Antibody IMC-EB10, NCI Thesaurus)
FGFR2, upregulated in many tumor cell types, is a receptor tyrosine kinase, which is essential to tumor cellular proliferation, differentiation and survival.
(Anti-FGFR2 Antibody BAY1179470, NCI Thesaurus)
Epithelial movement therefore requires integration of motogenic and cell-survival signals.
(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
They also showed that it predicts the C. elegans survival curve (how many individuals are still alive at any given age).
(Study reveals how collapse of protein processes is driver of aging and death, National Science Foundation)
The Notch signaling pathway plays an important role in cell-fate determination, cell survival, and cell proliferation.
(MK0752, NCI Thesaurus)
NAE inhibitor MLN4924 binds to and inhibits NAE, which may result in the inhibition of tumor cell proliferation and survival.
(NAE Inhibitor MLN4924, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes RAC-beta serine/threonine-protein kinase protein, is involved in mediation of cell survival and plays a putative role in the metabolic actions of insulin.
(AKT2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
GBM stem-like cells contain a specific range of antigens that are essential for the neoplastic growth and survival of GBM cells.
(Allogeneic Glioblastoma Stem-like Cell Line Lysate-pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)
Albendazole interferes with the reproduction and survival of helminths by inhibiting the formation of microtubules from tubulin.
(Albendazole, NCI Thesaurus)
