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1. The relief of repression for a gene or set of genes under negative control by a repressor. 2. Regarding temperate phages, the process causing a prophage to become virulent. 3. In development, an interaction between two cell lineages to alter the developmental fate of one or both of them.
Ãâó: helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/ijk.htm
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| induction period |
Time period between exposure to an agent and disease detection.
Ãâó: www.cdc.gov/niosh/2001-133o.html
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| induction |
the initiation phase of a particular therapy.
Ãâó: www.aegis.com/pubs/beta/1999/be990414.html
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| induction |
a method of reasoning in which one proceeds by generalization from a series of specific observations so as to derive general conclusions (cf. deduction).
Ãâó: farahsouth.cgu.edu/dictionary/
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| induction of labor |
The use of artificial means to start the process of childbirth.
Ãâó: www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/factbk2/glossary.htm
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