ORIGINATE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does originate in mean? 

• ORIGINATE IN (verb)
  The verb ORIGINATE IN has 1 sense:

1. come from

  Familiarity information: ORIGINATE IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORIGINATE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Come from

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "originate in"):

stem (grow out of, have roots in, originate in)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

One possible explanation is that these genes might originate in multidrug-resistant bacteria, so using a particular antibiotic may trigger resistance to other antibiotics, even if they were not used.

(Prolonged antibiotic treatment may alter preterm infants’ microbiome, National Institutes of Health)

The vast majority of melanotic tumors that affect the breast are metastatic melanomas that originate in extra-mammary sites.

(Breast Carcinoma with Melanotic Features, NCI Thesaurus)

Genotoxic stresses frequently activate signal transduction pathways that originate in the cell membrane or cytoplasm, triggering similar phosphorylation cascades to those induced by the activation of cell-surface receptors.

(Genotoxic Stress, NCI Thesaurus)

A heterogeneous group of nonprogressive motor disorders caused by chronic brain injuries that originate in the prenatal period, perinatal period, or first few years of life.

(Cerebral Palsy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Any of the 12 paired nerves that originate in the brain stem.

(Cranial Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

These nerves originate in the spinal column and innervate the shoulder, arm and hand.

(Brachial Plexus Injury, NCI Thesaurus)

The idea did not originate in my own discernment, I am bound to confess, but in a speech of Rosa Dartle's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The motor fibers originate in the oculomotor nuclei of the midbrain.

(Oculomotor Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An electrocardiographic finding of a regular atrial rhythm with atrial rate of less than 101 beats per minute which does not originate in the sinus node, and which is characterized by P waves whose morphology differs from the P wave morphology during sinus rhythm.

(Ectopic Atrial Rhythm by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

These findings suggest that type 2 diabetes – and perhaps other cigarette smoking-related diseases in which abnormalities in the autonomic nervous system play a role, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease – originate in the brain and implicate nicotine-induced disrupted interactions between the habenula and the peripheral nervous system.

(Nicotine addiction linked to diabetes through a DNA-regulating gene in animal models, National Institutes of Health)