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underinduced

underinduced adjective: insufficiently induced.

Adjective

underinduced (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently 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 underinduced

From under- + induced.

Questions about underinduced

What does underinduced mean?
Underinduced means insufficiently induced.
What part of speech is underinduced?
Underinduced is an adjective.

Words near underinduced in the dictionary

  1. underinclusivity
  2. underindex
  3. underindexed
  4. underindexes
  5. underindexing
  6. underinduced
  7. underindulge
  8. underindulged
  9. underindulgence
  10. underindulges
  11. underindulging

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