induced

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He treats it with a freedom and variety and a certain disregard of precedent--induced, perhaps, by his schooling in Blackletter--that often produces delightful, though sometimes, be it added, direful results.

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  1. Caused by induction.
  2. Induced current in electricity, a current excited by the variation of an adjacent current or of the surrounding magnetic field. See induction, 6.
  3. Induced magnetism magnetism produced in soft iron when a magnet is held near, or a wire through which a current is passing is coiled round it. See induction, 6.

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  • Patients who lived to talk about a failed suicide attempt have described the SSRI-induced akathisia, as being so unbearable that their only option for relief seemed to be death. —  SEROXAT SUFFERERS - STAND UP AND BE COUNTED
  • But a note in advance: The use of honey to treat dog allergies usually works only for seasonal-induced or environmental allergies.
  • AIM: In this study we examined broad patterns of gene expression induced by H. pylori in the gastric cancer cell line 1739-CRL AGS cells in culture using the U95A microarray. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • CONCLUSIONS: In this microarray analysis of gene expression induced by H. pylori in gastric epithelial cells, we identified a large number of unsuspected genes affected by H. pylori. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Europe's 2003 heat wave -- induced by climate change -- resulted in 27,000 extra deaths. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
 

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