proliferation

Examples of proliferating

proliferating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This would potentially facilitate competition between microbes and reduce the risk of a small number of pathogens dominating and, therefore, proliferating.
During this latter stage, differentiation is apparently blocked, and the clonal, nonfunctional, proliferating blast cells accumulate to cause a clinical disease similar to acute leukaemia.
The proliferating response of glia to nerve injury might be different depending on the lesion site.
Consider, for example, the growth of a tumour that initially comprises only proliferating cells.
In this experiment visibly contaminated seeds were removed (otherwise the stored seeds become a proliferating mass of fungal hyphae).
Following a discussion of the nature and analytical categorisations of proliferating rural activities, four opposing tensions are examined.
Despite the best efforts of many people to prevent nuclear proliferation, nuclear technology is proliferating.
One is the increased use of training and education schemes, which are proliferating in this area.
In the architects' words, these drifting terrains - once edge conditions, now nodes in an ever proliferating network - epitomize 'only local borders between differing textural conditions'.
In some cases, the cells were connected to each other by a cytoplasmic bridge, suggesting that these germ cells were proliferating in the culture.
As the tumour grows, cells towards its centre, being deprived of vital nutrients, cease proliferating and become quiescent.
Initial discrete cells presented by a viola are permutated and distributed among other solo instruments in a gradually proliferating internal dialogue characteristic of chamber music.
The proliferating defensive arguments made on behalf of temple dancing girls, all of which centered around marriage, reveal the extent of their grasp.
The basal layer of mammalian skin is a heterogeneous population of proliferating and differentiating cells.
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