TRANSFORMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transformed mean? 

• TRANSFORMED (adjective)
  The adjective TRANSFORMED has 1 sense:

1. given a completely different form or appearance

  Familiarity information: TRANSFORMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given a completely different form or appearance

Context example:

shocked to see the transformed landscape

Similar:

changed (made or become different in nature or form)

 Context examples 

Autologous EBV-specific CTLs are produced by exposing autologous CTLs to "stimulator" autologous EBV-transformed lymphoblastoid cell lines (EBV-LCLs).

(Autologous TGFbeta-Resistant HER2/EBV-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

The study of the similarities and differences between different living organisms of the process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.

(Comparative Carcinogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

This activity may contribute to anchorage independent growth of Met transformed cells.

(Hepatocyte Growth Factor Receptor Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Transformed cells can also be detected and eliminated by cytotoxic T cells.

(Cytotoxic T Cell Surface Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The process by which normal cells are transformed into cancer cells.

(Carcinogenesis, NCI Dictionary)

To repair the abnormalities in the human brain caused by the apoE4 gene, the researchers created compounds that transformed the apoE4 protein into the harmless apoE3 protein.

(Alzheimer's Disease Gene Successfully Removed From Human Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The absence of fibronectin causes a loss of contact inhibition in transformed cells.

(Fibronectin, NCI Thesaurus)

They were new dogs, utterly transformed by the harness.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A B-lymphocyte that has been transformed (activated) in response to antigenic stimulation.

(B-Immunoblast, NCI Thesaurus)

"Decidedly he has had too much wine," I thought; and I did not know what answer to make to his queer question: how could I tell whether he was capable of being re-transformed?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)