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contraregulatory

contraregulatory is the alternative form of counterregulatory.

Meaning of counterregulatory

Adjective

counterregulatory (not comparable)

  1. That counters a regulatory process, especially the action of a hormone

Origin of contraregulatory

From contra- + regulatory.

Questions about contraregulatory

What is contraregulatory the alternative form of?
Contraregulatory is the alternative form of counterregulatory.

Words near contraregulatory in the dictionary

  1. contrapuntists
  2. contrapunto
  3. contrapuntos
  4. contrarational
  5. contrarationality
  6. contraregulatory
  7. contraremonstrance
  8. contraremonstrances
  9. contraremonstrant
  10. contraremonstrants
  11. contrarevolutionaries

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contraregulatory (page history and authors); counterregulatory (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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