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overinduced

overinduced adjective: excessively induced.

Adjective

overinduced (not comparable)

  1. Excessively induced
    • Because the overinduced vulval phenotype caused by loss of lin-1 activity is the opposite of the underinduced phenotype resulting from reduction of Wnt pathway activity ( Eisenmann et al. 1998 ; Eisenmann and Kim 2000 ; Gleason et al. 2006 ), it was intriguing to identify lin-1 as a possible Wnt...2015 June 5, Lakshmi Gorrepati et al., “Identification of Wnt Pathway Target Genes Regulating the Division and Differentiation of Larval Seam Cells and Vulval Precursor Cells in Caenorhabditis...

Origin of overinduced

From over- + induced.

Questions about overinduced

What does overinduced mean?
Overinduced means excessively induced.
What part of speech is overinduced?
Overinduced is an adjective.

Words near overinduced in the dictionary

  1. overindexed
  2. overindexes
  3. overindexing
  4. overindividualism
  5. overindividualistic
  6. overinduced
  7. overinduction
  8. overinductions
  9. overindulge
  10. overindulged
  11. overindulgence

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