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  • In a reversible manner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a reversible manner.

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  • adverb In a way that can be undone.

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  • adverb in a reversible manner

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Examples

  • Salicylate reversibly inhibits prostaglandin synthesis.

    Aspirin: effects, poisoning 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106 2009, 912–17.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106 2009, 912–17.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control.”

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 106 2009, 912–17.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control.”

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Liston, B. S. McEwen, and B. J. Casey, “Psychosocial stress reversibly disrupts prefrontal processing and attentional control.”

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.

    Science Press Releases 2007

  • But in distinction to these long-known regulatory genes, whose function rests on their ability to being reversibly switched on and off according to the requirements of actual metabolic and environmental situations, developmental genes initiate irreversible processes.

    Gene Rheinberger, Hans-Jörg 2009

  • If they refuse, they will have to be sterilised (perhaps reversibly, eg via storing eggs).

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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