INDUCED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does induced mean? 

• INDUCED (adjective)
  The adjective INDUCED has 1 sense:

1. brought about or caused; not spontaneous

  Familiarity information: INDUCED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDUCED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brought about or caused; not spontaneous

Context example:

a case of steroid-induced weakness

Similar:

elicited; evoked (called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation)

iatrogenic (induced by a physician's words or therapy (used especially of a complication resulting from treatment))

Antonym:

spontaneous (happening or arising without apparent external cause)

 Context examples 

A hepatocellular carcinoma that develops following alcohol-induced injury of the liver parenchyma.

(Alcohol-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in catecholamine-induced regulation of adenylate cyclase signaling.

(Alpha-2C Adrenergic Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

Was there anything in your letter which might have unbalanced him or induced him to take such a step?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

L-alanosine-induced disruption of de novo purine biosynthesis is potentiated by methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP) deficiency.

(Alanosine, NCI Thesaurus)

The therapy successfully protected neurons from virus-induced death.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

Aminocaproic acid is used in the treatment of hemorrhage and prophylactically against hemorrhage, including hyperfibrinolysis-induced hemorrhage and postsurgical hemorrhage.

(Aminocaproic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

A natural or surgically-induced connection between tubular structures in the body.

(Anastomosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Michellamine B inhibits HIV reverse transcriptase (RT) activity and HIV-induced cellular fusion and syncytium formation, thereby inhibiting viral propagation.

(Michellamine B, NCI Thesaurus)

This single-strand breaks in DNA induced by this agent result in the inhibition of DNA synthesis.

(Misonidazole, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, this agent has induced apoptosis in mouse thymocytes and inhibits the G2/M phase of the cell cycle.

(Methyl 2,5-dihydroxycinnamate, NCI Thesaurus)