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precursorial

precursorial adjective: acting as or being a precursor.

Adjective

precursorial (not comparable)

  1. Acting as or being a precursor.
    • Because no precursorial shock wave is present, because of a center focal point for the shockwave, and because of the lower pressure of shock wave in this machine, the patient feels no pain and it is possible to treat without any kind of anesthesia, including IV sedation.2013, Joseph W. Segura, David E. Patterson, Andrew J. LeRoy, “Wolf Piezoelectric Lithotripsy”, in James Lingeman, editor, Shock Wave Lithotripsy: State of the Art, page 279
    • Later the thick filaments acquired a more compact, regular arrangement to form interrupted series of structural units (sarcomeres), on which precursorial M-lines and H-bands could then be noted.2013, Lawrence Dillon, The Inconstant Gene, page 194

Examples of precursorial in a sentence

  • The presence of these precursorial forms of the hormones was initially demonstrated by gel filtration chromatography and radioimmunoassay of glandular tissue extracts.2013, C. E. Finch, Parkinson’s Disease—II: Aging and Neuroendocrine Relationships, page 61:
  • He claimed that the seeming 'precursorial' colonies of fossils were the result of younger rocks having been faulted into older strata ( Notebook IV, 3 July 1879), as shown in Figure 5.1.2002, David Roger Oldroyd, Earth, Water, Ice and Fire, page 60:

Origin of precursorial

From precursor + -ial.

Questions about precursorial

What does precursorial mean?
Precursorial means acting as or being a precursor.
How do you use precursorial in a sentence?
The presence of these precursorial forms of the hormones was initially demonstrated by gel filtration chromatography and radioimmunoassay of glandular tissue extracts.
What part of speech is precursorial?
Precursorial is an adjective.

Words near precursorial in the dictionary

  1. precursor
  2. precursor enzyme
  3. precursor enzymes
  4. precursor tip
  5. precursor tips
  6. precursorial
  7. precursories
  8. precursors
  9. precursorship
  10. precursorships
  11. precursory

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