Heterotropic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Heterotropic is an adjective meaning (physiology) Concerning a process that abnormally takes place outside of its normal system as well as within its normal system.
Meaning
(physiology) Concerning a process that abnormally takes place outside of its normal system as well as within its normal system.
More Meanings
- Arising from the interaction of separate people or entities.
- (chemistry) Concerning an effect in one entity that is controlled or influenced by a separate entity, such as when one ligand influences the binding of another ligand.
Example Sentences
Some allosteric enzymes exhibit mixed homotropic and heterotropic interactions.
Heterotropic pregnancy occurs when intrauterine and ectopic pregnancies coexist.
As Webster informs us, it is both psychomorphic and heterotropic. I suppose that's a fancy way of saying Illyrion is many things to many men.
In heterotropic allosteric regulation, the bacterial enzymes are activated by ADP and inhibited by phosphoenolpyruvate binding at the allosteric site.
Antonyms for heterotropic
Common opposites include homotropic.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include squinting, effectors, heterometabolic, heteropoietic, heterosynaptic, heterobiotic.
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