deadapt

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Etymology

de- +‎ adapt

Verb

deadapt (third-person singular simple present deadapts, present participle deadapting, simple past and past participle deadapted)

  1. (intransitive) To adapt to a previous form
    • 1960, Journal Canadien de Génétique Et de Cytologie:
      In this experiment it was assumed on hypothesis ( 1 ) that the cells will deadapt or partially deadapt in the absence of caffeine and be required to readapt in its presence.
    • 1997, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Gulf War Syndrome: To Examine New Studies Suggesting Links Between Gulf Service and Higher Rates of Illnesses : Hearing Before the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, January 21, 1997:
      This will allow adequate time for patients to deadapt (unmask, detoxify) from chemical exposure and give them time to adapt to the realities of coping with MCS through the program which will be described below.
    • 2014, Oscar Gonzalez-Perez, Jose Manuel Garcia-Verdugo, Adan Aguirre, The ventricular-subventricular zone: a source of oligodendrocytes in the adult brain, Frontiers E-books, →ISBN, page 75:
      After prism removal, with continued pointing to visual targets, healthy participants are typically very fast to deadapt and return to baseline accuracy...

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