fibroblast growth factor

noun

: any of several protein growth factors that stimulate the proliferation especially of endothelial cells and that promote angiogenesis

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In bladder cancer, which is diagnosed in more than half a million patients each year4, noninvasive malignancies that sit on the inner surface of the organ often express mutations of the gene for fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR). —Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

fibroblast growth factor

noun

: any of several protein growth factors that stimulate the proliferation especially of endothelial cells and that promote angiogenesis

—abbreviation FGF