mutagenicity
nounEtymology From mutagenic + -ity.
1
The condition of being mutagenic.
- The Ames test proved that mutagenicity was linked to carcinogenicity.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 303:
2
A measure of the extent to which something is mutagenic.
- Derived terms
- paramutagenicity, photomutagenicity