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    3. 増殖

    増殖

    増ぞう殖しょく

    increase

    KMT6News #7+1Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive, IntransitiveScience & MathKanji Vocab26 strokes

    ぞうしょく

    Noun, Participle, Verb, Transitive, Intransitive

    1.
    increase, multiplication, propagation, proliferation

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    細さい菌きんは急きゅう速そくに増ぞう殖しょくする。

    Bacteria multiply rapidly.

    KMT4Science & MathMedicine & Health
    がん細さい胞ぼうの増ぞう殖しょくを抑おさえる薬くすりが開かい発はつされた。

    A drug has been developed to suppress the proliferation of cancer cells.

    KMT6Science & MathMedicine & Health
    このウイルスは宿しゅく主しゅの体たい内ないで増ぞう殖しょくし、病びょう気きを引ひき起おこす。

    This virus multiplies within the host's body and causes illness.

    KMT6Science & MathMedicine & Health
    森しん林りん伐ばっ採さいにより、砂さ漠ばく化かが増ぞう殖しょくしている地ち域いきがある。

    Due to deforestation, there are areas where desertification is proliferating.

    KMT6Nature & EnvironmentScience & Math
    放ほう射しゃ線せんは細さい胞ぼうの増ぞう殖しょくを阻そ害がいする効こう果かがある。

    Radiation has the effect of inhibiting cell proliferation.

    KMT7Science & MathMedicine & Health

    Kanji that make up this word

    増
    ま.す・ま.し・ふ.える・ふ.やす…(3)
    increase・add・augment・gain・promote
    殖
    ふ.える・ふ.やす…(4)
    augment・increase・multiply・raise
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