psychrosensitive
/ˌsaɪkɹəˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[A]ttenuated strains of myxoma virus, like attenuated strains of poliovirus type I, are less thermoresistant and less psychrosensitive (in their replication) than virulent strains."
- "The experimental results described above, considered with those reported elsewhere, are compatible with the hypothesis that T-antigen, upon reaching a critical concentration, triggers a psychrosensitive (cold-sensitive) event(s) which leads to the activation of the cellular DNA-synthesizing apparatus and, as a consequence, to the replication of the host cell chromosomes."
- "The sequence of events of the lytic infection is essentially the same at 27°C as during infection at 37°C. However, due to a cold-sensitive metabolic process ("psychrosensitive event") that is intercalated between the appearance of T antigen and virus-induced chromatin replication, the time course of infection is considerably slower at 27°C[…]."
- "[B]acterial taxa which we identified as psychrosensitive were inhibited, whereas taxa identified as psychrophilic flourished."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsaɪkɹəˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
- British English: /ˌsaɪkɹə(ʊ)ˈsɛnsɪtɪv/
Inflected Forms
more psychrosensitive (comparative)
most psychrosensitive (superlative)