Usually means: Lifting of inhibition on genes.
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  1. derepression: Merriam-Webster
  2. derepression: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derepression: Collins English Dictionary
  4. derepression: Wiktionary
  5. derepression: Dictionary.com
  6. Derepression: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. derepression: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. derepression: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. derepression: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. derepression: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (derepression)

▸ noun:  (genetics) The inactivation of a repressor gene.
▸ noun:  (psychiatry) The cessation of repression of a belief, memory, etc.

Similar:
antirepression, reversion, transrepressor, downregulation, contrasuppression, demultiplication, deletion, desilencing, retrotranscription, pseudoreversion, more...

Opposite:
repression, suppression, inhibition

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Similar:
antirepression, reversion, transrepressor, downregulation, contrasuppression, demultiplication, deletion, desilencing, retrotranscription, pseudoreversion, more...

Opposite:
repression, suppression, inhibition



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