Revertent
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Revertent is an adjective meaning Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.
Meaning
Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.
More Meanings
- (medicine, obsolete) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
- (by extension) Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
- A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.
Example Sentences
The revertent virus may have escaped immune recognition in the animal in which it arose, but this virus was pathogenic in naive hosts.
A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
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 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.
Word Forms
- revertents
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include resumptive, revulsive, revulsion, revulsant, sanative, alterative.
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