basal

Example Sentences

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Non-melanoma cancers like basal and squamous cell are more common but usually less likely to spread or be fatal, he said.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

They detached from the ventricular zone more often and were more likely to become basal progenitor cells instead.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

It may also account for the unusual composition of the large low-shear-velocity provinces and ultra-low-velocity zones, which the scientists interpret as the cooled remains of a "basal magma ocean" altered by core-derived material.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2025

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay shared his skin cancer diagnosis on social media, revealing that he had surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

My centrioles, basal bodies, and probably a good many other more obscure tiny beings at work inside my cells, each with its own special genome, are as foreign, and as essential, as aphids in anthills.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas