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revertents

revertents is the plural of revertent.

Meaning of revertent

Noun

revertent (plural revertents)

  1. (obsolete) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
  2. (broadly) Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
    • Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.1848, Thomas Hall, Rowland Bradshaw, page 295
  3. A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.
    • A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.1982, Advances in Genetics- Volume 21, page 360

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Questions about revertents

What is revertents the plural of?
Revertents is the plural of revertent.

Words near revertents in the dictionary

  1. reverted
  2. reverted back
  3. revertee
  4. revertees
  5. revertent
  6. revertents
  7. reverter
  8. reverters
  9. reverteth
  10. revertibility
  11. revertible

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