Meanings
plural misinteractions
- countableuncountableThe act of misinteracting; interaction that should not occur or that occurs improperly.
In fact, ATP levels in clones were not dimished; rather they were not controlled as per normal development, suggestive of nucleus cytoplasm misinteraction.
2004, Silvia Garagna, Mouse Genetics After the Mouse Genome, page 2763 more examples
When one views a possible clinical misinteraction in which the patient, out of the victim posture, provokes the aggressor potential of his therapist in the complementary mode, one may say that the therapist has formed an “identification with the aggressor."
1982, Robert J. Langs, International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, page 129Fortunately, social scientists are coming to realize that miscommunication and misinteraction stemming from shame and self-consciousness are critical problems in human life.
2004, David Smith Allyn, I Can't Believe I Just Did that, page 21Moreover, since proteins with IDRs carry regulatory and signaling functions that often rely on molecular interactions, their misregulation, misinteractions, and missignaling are also linked to several types of cancers, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases (Uversky et al., 2008)
2020, Lukasz Kurgan, Min Li, Yaohang Li, “The Methods and Tools for Intrinsic Disorder Prediction and their Application to Systems Medicine”, in Olaf Wolkenhauer, Julio Vera-González, Béatrice Desvergne, Shailendra Gupta, editors, Systems Medicine, page 165
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