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n. The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.

n. The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.

n. The result of building up; buildup, accretion.

n. The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

n. The continuous development of cells in tissue formation; cell formation.

n. The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

n. In zoology, the origination and development of generative zoöids, as in the formation of medusa-buds (planoblasts or hedrioblasts) by a polyp. See planoblast.

n. In botany, same as prolification.

n. Increase in size by reproduction of the primary elements.

n. growth by the rapid multiplication of parts

n. a rapid increase in number (especially a rapid increase in the number of deadly weapons)

"I personally do whatever I can to avoid having to pronounce the word proliferation."

ontogeny    development    ontogenesis    maturation    growing    growth    increment    increase   

band of proliferation    entogastric proliferation   

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apoptosis    differentiation    activation    T cell    adhesion    migration    motility    hyperplasia    metastasis    anergy