parasynchronize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

para- +‎ synchronize

Verb[edit]

parasynchronize (third-person singular simple present parasynchronizes, present participle parasynchronizing, simple past and past participle parasynchronized)

  1. To make parasynchronous.
    • 1989 March, Kurt A Black, Richard D McFarland, Joe W Grisham, Gart H Smith, “S-phase block and cell death in human lymphoblasts exposed to benzo [a] pyrene diol epoxide or N-acetoxy-2-acetylaminofluorene”, in Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, volume 97, number 3:
      BPDE had a parasynchronizing effect on TC-7 cells that was similar to ...
    • 1993, Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology, →ISBN:
      It was therefore surprising that, in a mouse cell line parasynchronized by serum starvation, MGMT activity appeared to be minimal 6-8 h before the onset of S phase (123).