Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To draw inward toward the median axis of the body or toward an adjacent part or limb.
- noun A chemical compound that forms from the addition of two or more substances.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw on; induce; allure.
- In physiology, to bring to or toward a median line or main axis. See
adduction , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Physiol.) To draw towards a common center or a middle line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, physiology To draw towards a center or a middle line.
- noun chemistry The product of an
addition reaction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb draw a limb towards the body
- noun a compound formed by an addition reaction
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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At that time Alex was studying the role of mono-ubiquitination of histones (for the histone-ubiquitin adduct H2A known also as protein A24 or uH2A, see above).
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These researchers reported that at the non-permissive temperature, the cell lost the histone H2A-ubiquitin adduct.
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These bases can be chemically modified in a number of ways, including by alkylation, in which an alkyl group (or "adduct") is transferred onto a guanine base.
innovations-report 2009
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These bases can be chemically modified in a number of ways, including by alkylation, in which an alkyl group (or "adduct") is transferred onto a guanine base.
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The adduct "stores" CH3O2, but the bond between the CH3O2 and the NO2 moities a convenient way of designating the molecular units is weak, and collisions can break it, thus the tight loop.
Passing Gas EliRabett 2010
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With extraordinary effort I can move my right hand a little and can adduct my left arm some six inches across my chest.
Anatomy Of Isolation: ALS Sufferer Tony Judt's Experience Of Night 2010
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DNA radioactivity was essentially in a single different adduct base, different from the normal bases present in DNA.
Samuel S. Epstein: A Dangerous Spin On The Cancer Risks Of Sugar-Free Sweeteners 2010
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In that case CH3O2 reacts with NO2 to form an adduct CH3O2NO2 .
Passing Gas EliRabett 2010
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It takes the masses from CE-MS and compares to an in-house metabolite database, and of course takes into account common adduct products and isotopes.
My PhD Thesis: in color and grayscale Egon Willighagen 2008
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Researchers speculate that this results when ellagic acid forms adduct (from Latin, “drawn toward”) with DNA, thus masking binding sites to be occupied by the carcinogens.
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