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催奇性 (さいきせい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

催さい奇き性せい

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Meanings

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noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

teratogenicity

Medical and biological term for the capacity to cause fetal malformations. Used in scientific contexts.

この薬やく剤ざいの催さい奇き性せいを調しらべるために動どう物ぶつ実じっ験けんが行おこなわれた。
Animal experiments were conducted to investigate the teratogenicity of this drug.

Kanji

催sponsor, hold (a meeting), give (a dinner)
奇strange, strangeness, curiosity
性sex, gender, nature

Etymology

Compound of 催 (sai, 'induce') + 奇 (ki, 'abnormal') + 性 (sei, 'property'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the medical meaning.