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English
Etymology
mis- + sense
Noun
missense (countable and uncountable, plural missenses)
- (biology) A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
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missense (third-person singular simple present missenses, present participle missensing, simple past and past participle missensed)
- To sense incorrectly.
2012, Stefan Bröer, Carsten A. Wagner, Membrane Transporter Diseases, page 194:One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.
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