revertent
/ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
Obsolete
noun
Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
Example Sentences
- "As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large."
- "The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts."
- "Histochemical staining using antibodies to N, C and rod domain epitopes of dystrophin usually show complete absence of the protein, except for occasional revertent fibres (there are fibres which label normally with antibodies to dystrophin; their origin is not understood; Fig. 20.2F)."
- "The greater the stress, the greater the tendency to revert to occult practices and an earlier stage of intellectual development, and these revertent ideologies thereby compete for acceptance."
- "Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state."
- "A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: revertor