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underactivating

underactivating is the present participle and gerund of underactivate.

Meaning of underactivate

Verb

underactivate (third-person singular simple present underactivates, present participle underactivating, simple past and past participle underactivated)

  1. To produce insufficient levels of activation.
    • Wood and Flowers (1999) demonstrated with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that the same brain regions that underactivate in dyslexia also underactivate in the inattentive subtype of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.2001 -, Que Ida, Annals of Dyslexia 2001, →ISBN, page 37

Questions about underactivating

What is underactivating the present participle and gerund of?
Underactivating is the present participle and gerund of underactivate.

Words near underactivating in the dictionary

  1. underaction
  2. underactions
  3. underactivate
  4. underactivated
  5. underactivates
  6. underactivating
  7. underactivation
  8. underactivations
  9. underactive
  10. underactive thyroid
  11. underactivity

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