hypoactivate
/ˌhaɪ.poʊˈæktɪveɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reduce the level of activation or activity of (a process, region, or function), especially in biological or neural contexts.
Example Sentences
- "Among the various effects, they hyperactivate, hypoactivate, or inhibite limbic and other circuits, disorganize circuit activity, and interfere with effective functioning of the organism."
- "If the DLPFC of schizophrenic patients operates less efficiently than that of controls, patients may be found to hyperactivate this region as they strain to keep up with low working memory loads that control subjects can easily handle, and hypoactivate this region at higher working memory loads that exceed patients’ working memory capacity, but not that of controls."
- "The mix-1 gene is known to hypoactivate the X chromosome and regulates the morphology of the male tail in C. elegans."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó) Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der. English hypo- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus ▲ Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl. Latin āctīvusbor. Old French actifbor. Middle English actyf English active Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English activate English hypoactivate From hypo- + activate.