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diergic

diergic adjective: exhibiting diergism.

Adjective

diergic (not comparable)

  1. Exhibiting diergism.
    • Gonadectomy reverses the sexually diergic patterns of circadian and stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in male and female rats.2006, Jennifer A. Mohawk, Interactions between glucocorticoids and the desynchronized circadian system
    • Furthermore, kisspeptin expression in the AVPV, but not in the arcuate nucleus, is sexually diergic, with a much greater number of kisspeptin neurons in the female.2011, Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen, Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, →ISBN, page 155

Questions about diergic

What does diergic mean?
Diergic means exhibiting diergism.
What part of speech is diergic?
Diergic is an adjective.

Words near diergic in the dictionary

  1. Dierckses
  2. Dierdre
  3. diereses
  4. dieresis
  5. dieretic
  6. diergic
  7. diergism
  8. Dieri
  9. diers
  10. dies
  11. dies a death

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