| 释义 |
inˈducible, a.
Also 7 -ceable.
[f. induce v. + -ible.]
1. a. Capable of being brought on, brought about, or caused.
a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1686 III. ix. 99 Subject to all the changes, inducible from the restless commotions of out⁓ward causes affecting and altering sense. 1958Times 7 Nov. 7/7 This [sc. ‘vigour tolerance’] is attributed to factors such as increased weight or improved biochemical conditions, inducible as a strain characteristic to be found in extremes of environmental conditions. 1973Nature 6 July 6/1 In the case of adjuvant arthritis—inducible in rats by remote injection of water-in-oil emulsion incorporating killed mycobacteria.
b. Biol. Of a bacterium: capable of being induced (induce v. 4 e).
1953Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XVIII. 102/1 A growing culture of inducible lysogenic bacteria. 1959Jacob & Wollman in Burnet & Stanley Viruses II. ix. 328 Within the same bacterial species, both inducible and non-inducible strains can be isolated.
c. Biochem. Of an enzyme or enzyme system: produced in response to the presence of an appropriate inducer.
1953[see induction 9 c]. 1966E. R. M. Kay Biochem. xxvii. 353 Some enzymes appear only when a special, but nevertheless necessary energy source is provided, as in the case of β-galactosidase formation. Such enzymes are called ‘inducible’ enzymes. 1971Nature 19 Nov. 135/1 In the inducible regulatory system of mammals, hormones rather than substrates..serve as inducers.
†2. Capable of being inferred. Obs. rare.
1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §48 Many things are true in Divinity, which are neither inducible by reason, nor confirmable by sense. 1646― Pseud. Ep. vi. vi. 303 That the extream and remote parts of the earth were in this time inhabited, is also induceable from the like Testimonies. |