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  • adjective Extremely rapid; so rapid that it may include to occur in femtoseconds or in a attosecond.

Etymologies

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ultra- +‎ rapid

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Examples

  • Five of the six guests were convinced that dramatic advances in a number of areas, including chemistry, optics, and computing, would be harnessed into an affordable bench-top instrument for ultrarapid DNA sequencing in the near future.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • The solution thus is that codeine is bioactivated by CYP2D6 into morphine, certain patients show an ultrarapid form of this metabolism, which leads to a life-threatening intoxication see Gasche et al.

    davidrothman.net » 2007 » March 2007

  • The solution thus is that codeine is bioactivated by CYP2D6 into morphine, certain patients show an ultrarapid form of this metabolism, which leads to a life-threatening intoxication see Gasche et al.

    davidrothman.net » Ali Baba (3rd Party PubMed tool) 2007

  • Looking further ahead one can see, for example, the possibility of building ultrarapid trains that run on superconducting tracks.

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 1972 - Presentation Speech 1992

  • They made wild and ultrarapid swoops, like water spiders on the surface of a pond.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • The 100-patient analysis found that 1 percent of the patients could be regarded as "poor metabolizers" (two reduced-function gene components), 29 percent were "intermediate", 37 percent were "extensive" (two normal functioning gene components) and 33 percent were "ultrarapid" metabolizers of CYP2C19.

    unknown title 2011

  • Codeine should be phased out due to the dangers for some people who are "ultrarapid metabolizers," meaning their bodies break down the drug far more quickly, leading to a toxic accumulation.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • The chance of being an ultrarapid metabolizer varies among different populations.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • But some people are ultrarapid metabolizers, meaning their bodies break codeine down far faster than most, leading to a toxic accumulation of morphine that can be deadly.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • On the other hand, an ultrarapid metabolism can lead to insufficient drug plasma concentration, resulting in failure of treatment, or it can lead to high concentrations of active/toxic metabolites.

    Naturejobs - All Jobs A L Zackrisson 2010

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