diergic

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adjective

Exhibiting diergism.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivediergic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableExhibiting diergism.

    The sexually diergic responses to single dose NIC, continuous NIC, and MEC-induced NIC withdrawal were reduced by EE in many male and female groups.

    2013, Monoterpenes—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN, page 6
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    Gonadectomy reverses the sexually diergic patterns of circadian and stress-induced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in male and female rats.

    2006, Jennifer A. Mohawk, Interactions between glucocorticoids and the desynchronized circadian system

    Furthermore, kisspeptin expression in the AVPV, but not in the arcuate nucleus, is sexually diergic, with a much greater number of kisspeptin neurons in the female.

    2011, Shlomo Melmed, Kenneth S. Polonsky, P. Reed Larsen, Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, →ISBN, page 155
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