hormetically
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By means of hormesis.
Example Sentences
- ""Wherefore the plastic nature, acting neither by knowledge nor by animal fancy, neither electively nor hormetically, must be concluded to act fatally, magically, and sympathetically.""
- "The hormetic pharmacy will also enlighten physicians and patients about the possibility of hormetically induced adverse effects for the spectrum of drugs that enhance the proliferation of harmful microbes, viruses, tumor cells, and other tissues, which could lead to various pathologies."
- "Curcumin has shown in vitro the ability to hormetically stimulate wound healing of human fibroblasts, and to be effective in the treatment of burn wounds in rats and humans."