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POTENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does potently mean? 

POTENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb POTENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a manner having a powerful influenceplay

  Familiarity information: POTENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POTENTLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a manner having a powerful influence

Synonyms:

potently; powerfully

Context example:

Clytemnestra's ghost crying in the night for vengeance remained most potently in the audience's mind

Pertainym:

potent (having great influence)


 Context examples 


Dapagliflozin selectively and potently inhibits SGLT2 compared to SGLT1, which is the cotransporter of glucose in the gut.

(Dapagliflozin, NCI Thesaurus)

It potently inhibits replication in both wild-type and drug-resistant (reverse transciptase or protease) HIV-1 isolates.

(Bevirimat, NCI Thesaurus)

FGFR inhibitor ARQ 087 binds to and potently inhibits the activity of FGFR subtypes 1, 2 and 3.

(pan FGFR Inhibitor ARQ 087, NCI Thesaurus)

TOP2-DPCs are most potently formed by pharmaceutical drugs that humans exploit to eradicate cancer cells, making TOP2-DPCs double-edged swords.

(DNA damage caused by cancer treatment reversed by ZATT protein, National Institutes of Health)

CDK2/TRKA inhibitor PHA-848125 AC potently inhibits cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) and exhibits activity against other CDKs including CDK1 and CDK4, in addition to TRKA.

(CDK2/TRKA Inhibitor PHA-848125 AC, NCI Thesaurus)

Cardiotrophin 1 was cloned via its ability to potently induce cardiac myocyte hypertrophy in vitro.

(Cardiotrophin 1, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)

Galanin is an important neuromodulator, a 30-amino acid non-C-terminally amidated peptide that potently stimulates growth hormone secretion, inhibits cardiac vagal slowing of heart rate, abolishes sinus arrhythmia, and inhibits postprandial gastrointestinal motility.

(Galanin Receptor 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Drosophila cells, which do not express any native MHC molecules, have been shown to potently stimulate tumor-reactivity in vitro from human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) when stably transfected with human MHC molecules and appropriate adhesion and costimulatory molecules.

(Autologous CD8 Positive PBL Sensitized to Drosophila Cell-Presented Melanoma Peptides, NCI Thesaurus)

I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might, by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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