| optically | By optics or sight; with reference to optics. <chemistry> Optically active, Optically inactive, terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz, that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. Optically positive, Optically negative. See Refraction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| optically active | <chemistry> A material which can rotate plane-polarized light. (09 Jan 1998) |
| inactive | Not active. (18 Nov 1997) |
| inactive mutant | A mutant that is not phenotypically manifest. Synonym: silent mutant. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactive repressor | A repressor that cannot combine with an operator gene until it has combined with a corepressor (usually a product of a protein pathway); after activation, the repressor arrests production of the proteins controlled by the operator gene; a homeostatic mechanism for regulation of repressible enzyme systems. Synonym: aporepressor. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inactive tuberculosis | A scar or a calcified, fibrous, or caseous nodule in the lung pleura, lymph node, or other organ, resulting from previous tuberculosis that has regressed; reactivation is possible. Synonym: arrested tuberculosis, inactive tuberculosis. (05 Mar 2000) |