seed-cell

Updated: May 23, 2025

One such adrift in the body is like a ferret in a rabbit warren; no other cell can face it for an instant. In fact, it is a genuine "animal spore," or seed-cell, capable of taking root and reproducing its kind in any favorable soil; and, unfortunately, almost every inch of a cancer patient's body seems to be such. It is merely a question of where the spore-cells happen to drift and lodge.

Woods Hutchinson - Preventable Diseases