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suppressory

suppressory adjective: that serves to suppress.

Adjective

suppressory (comparative more suppressory, superlative most suppressory)

  1. That serves to suppress.
    • We have identified an miR-1246 target site in the noncoding region of F8 mRNA and were able to confirm the suppressory role of hsa-miR-1246 on F8 expression in a stable lymphoblastoid cell line expressing FVIII. These findings suggest several testable hypotheses vis-à-vis the role of nc-RNAs in the...2015 July 16, “Small ncRNA Expression-Profiling of Blood from Hemophilia A Patients Identifies miR-1246 as a Potential Regulator of Factor 8 Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of suppressory

comparativemore suppressory
superlativemost suppressory

Origin of suppressory

From suppress + -ory.

Questions about suppressory

What does suppressory mean?
Suppressory means that serves to suppress.
What part of speech is suppressory?
Suppressory is an adjective.

Words near suppressory in the dictionary

  1. suppressives
  2. suppressogenic
  3. suppressogenicity
  4. suppressor
  5. suppressors
  6. suppressory
  7. supprest
  8. supprime
  9. supprimed
  10. supprimes
  11. suppriming

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