English words containing genic:

Meanings of Cyanogenic:

adjective

(of a plant) capable of cyanogenesis.

Usage examples:

Cyanogenic forms

Meanings of Cytogenic:

adjective

Producing cells (in early use specifically lymphoid cells); characterized by the production of cells; of or relating to cytogenesis.

Meanings of Cytopathogenic:

adjective

Cytopathic.

Meanings of Cytopathogenicity:

noun

The property of being cytopathic; the degree to which a virus or other agent is cytopathic.

Meanings of Diabetogenic:

adjective

Causing diabetes; of or relating to the causation of diabetes.

Meanings of Dysgenic:

adjective

Exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics.

Usage examples:

Dysgenic breeding

Meanings of Dysgenics:

adjective

Exerting a detrimental effect on later generations through the inheritance of undesirable characteristics.

Usage examples:

Dysgenic breeding

Meanings of Electrogenic:

adjective

Producing a change in the electrical potential of a cell.

Usage examples:

As far as is known, 4 - cl-iaa has never been examined for its ability to regulate electrogenic act…

Meanings of Encephalitogenic:

adjective

Producing, capable of producing, or involved in the production of encephalitis (in later use especially by an immune or automimmune mechanism).

Meanings of Endogenic:

adjective

Formed or occurring beneath the surface of the earth.

Usage examples:

Generally, at the megascale, the largest scale of investigation, landforms result primarily from en…

Meanings of Enteropathogenic:

adjective

Of an infectious agent: causing disease of the intestines or gastrointestinal tract.

Meanings of Epileptogenic:

adjective

Capable of causing an epileptic attack.

Usage examples:

Penicillin is a potent epileptogenic agent

Meanings of Erotogenic:

adjective

Another term for erogenous.

Meanings of Erythrogenic:

adjective

(of a bacterial toxin) causing inflammation and reddening of the skin.

Usage examples:

Erythrogenic toxin is responsible for the rash of scarlet fever

Meanings of Esthesiogenic:

adjective

Producing or restoring sensation.

Meanings of Estrogenically:

adverb

As regards oestrogenic activity or properties; by or by means of oestrogens.

Meanings of Estrogenicity:

noun

Oestrogenic properties or activity.

Meanings of Ethnogenic:

adjective

Of or relating to ethnogeny or ethnogenesis.

Meanings of Eugenic:

adjective

Relating to or derived from eugenics.

Usage examples:

Past eugenic policies placed restrictions on marriage and immigration

Meanings of Eugenical:

adjective

Of or relating to eugenics.

Meanings of Eugenicist:

noun

An advocate or supporter of eugenics.

Usage examples:

In the late 19th century, eugenicists were eager to insist that biological factors are the primary …

adjective

Relating to eugenicists or eugenics.

Usage examples:

The revelation of the nazi death camps exposed the catastrophic impact of eugenicist ideology

Meanings of Eugenicists:

noun

An advocate or supporter of eugenics.

Usage examples:

In the late 19th century, eugenicists were eager to insist that biological factors are the primary …

adjective

Relating to eugenicists or eugenics.

Usage examples:

The revelation of the nazi death camps exposed the catastrophic impact of eugenicist ideology

Meanings of Eugenics:

plural noun

The study of how to arrange reproduction within a human population to increase the occurrence of heritable characteristics regarded as desirable. developed largely by sir francis galton as a method of improving the human race, eugenics was increasingly discredited as unscientific and racially biased during the 20th century, especially after the adoption of its doctrines by the nazis in order to justify their treatment of jews, disabled people, and other minority groups.

Usage examples:

In erlangen, the university keenly promoted the science of eugenics.

noun

The idea that it is possible to improve humans by allowing only particular people to produce children, which most people now do not accept or support because of the idea's connection with racist and nazi theories and actions

Usage examples:

Eugenics is a philosophy rather than a science., there was concern that genetic profiling might lea…

Meanings of Exogenic:

adjective

Formed or occurring on the surface of the earth.

Usage examples:

I propose the term exogenic fulgurites (formed at or above the earth's surface) to distinguish this…

Meanings of Fibrinogenic:

noun

A soluble protein present in blood plasma, from which fibrin is produced by the action of the enzyme thrombin.

Usage examples:

The objective of this complex process is to convert a soluble plasma protein, fibrinogen, to an ins…