What's the difference between prepotency and prepotent?

Prepotency


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
  • (n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (2) Certain extraterritorial cues constituting an agoraphobic cluster seem to be prepotent and prepared triggers or modifiers of fear during stress.
  • (3) Lung reflexes in the fibrotic rabbits were more profoundly changed than eupneic breathing in a way that could be interpreted as slowly adapting receptor activity, which was increased, being overpowered by a prepotent input from pulmonary rapidly adapting receptors.
  • (4) It is suggested that the hippocampus may act to suppress any ongoing dominant or prepotent response, whether the response involves movement or cessation of movement.
  • (5) A model of antonym learning is proposed that assigns a prepotent role to the second-to-emerge term in a contrastive pair.
  • (6) These probably include ascending dopaminergic and cholinergic systems which are relatively thirst specific, and a nonspecific, cholinergic component of the reticular activating system which triggers the animal to execute a prepotent response which is specific to a given animal with a given history of stimulation under particular enviromental constraints.
  • (7) The prepotency of a maternal regulator has also been demonstrated in humans.
  • (8) This study also demonstrated an extensive network of NPY fibers in various areas of the forebrain such as the prepotic area, the hypothalamus and the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus.
  • (9) It is considered that the right hemisphere is prepotent for dealing with simple perceptual stimuli even when there is no spatial component for the task.
  • (10) Unimpaired taste aversion is found, arguing against a deficit in the ability to inhibit a prepotent response.
  • (11) These data, together with previous observations, suggest that there exists a correlation between equipotential effects of D- and L-amphetamine and DA electrode placements on the one hand, and prepotent effects of D-amphetamine and NA electrode placements on the other.
  • (12) Appetitive drug actions increase the likelihood of the pursuit of appetitive stimuli, and additional drug constitutes a prepotent candidate from among the available appetitive stimuli.
  • (13) The learning of stimulus bound drinking is proposed to have its neural locus within the system which mediates the prepotent response, rather than in a thirst system or general activation system.
  • (14) The combined results suggest that perinatal gonadal androgen exposure effects on social play are prepotent and contribute essentially to sex differences in the initiation of social play behavior.
  • (15) Electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus in 2 species of hibernator, dormice (Glis glis) and ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis), suggests that induced behaviors may reflect activation of specific neural systems, rather than merely activation of a single central mechanism interacting with internal and external cues and past experience (prepotency hypothesis).
  • (16) Just as in animals, it seems likely that the inability to hyperventilate permitted the primary cardiac reflex to occur rather than the usual response of tachycardia to chemoreceptor stimulation which is prepotent with spontaneous ventilation.
  • (17) We suggest that the fragile X patients may be more susceptible to mutagens and carcinogens and, therefore, more prepotent to neoplastic induction.
  • (18) Since speech exerts a prepotent attraction on the attention of normally developing infants, hence facilitating social engagement, we designed a technique to examine whether this inborn reaction could be at fault in young autistic children.
  • (19) These results were interpreted as indicating that the diffuse pain system was prepotent in influencing behavior when both the discrete and diffuse pain systems were activated simultaneously.
  • (20) Patterns with more elements, angles, and information as well as patterns with larger elements received longer fixation at all ages, but initially prepotent size preferences decreased with age while number preferences became stronger.

Prepotent


Definition:

  • (a.) Very powerful; superior in force, influence, or authority; predominant.
  • (a.) Characterized by prepotency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (2) Certain extraterritorial cues constituting an agoraphobic cluster seem to be prepotent and prepared triggers or modifiers of fear during stress.
  • (3) Lung reflexes in the fibrotic rabbits were more profoundly changed than eupneic breathing in a way that could be interpreted as slowly adapting receptor activity, which was increased, being overpowered by a prepotent input from pulmonary rapidly adapting receptors.
  • (4) It is suggested that the hippocampus may act to suppress any ongoing dominant or prepotent response, whether the response involves movement or cessation of movement.
  • (5) A model of antonym learning is proposed that assigns a prepotent role to the second-to-emerge term in a contrastive pair.
  • (6) These probably include ascending dopaminergic and cholinergic systems which are relatively thirst specific, and a nonspecific, cholinergic component of the reticular activating system which triggers the animal to execute a prepotent response which is specific to a given animal with a given history of stimulation under particular enviromental constraints.
  • (7) The prepotency of a maternal regulator has also been demonstrated in humans.
  • (8) This study also demonstrated an extensive network of NPY fibers in various areas of the forebrain such as the prepotic area, the hypothalamus and the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus.
  • (9) It is considered that the right hemisphere is prepotent for dealing with simple perceptual stimuli even when there is no spatial component for the task.
  • (10) Unimpaired taste aversion is found, arguing against a deficit in the ability to inhibit a prepotent response.
  • (11) These data, together with previous observations, suggest that there exists a correlation between equipotential effects of D- and L-amphetamine and DA electrode placements on the one hand, and prepotent effects of D-amphetamine and NA electrode placements on the other.
  • (12) Appetitive drug actions increase the likelihood of the pursuit of appetitive stimuli, and additional drug constitutes a prepotent candidate from among the available appetitive stimuli.
  • (13) The learning of stimulus bound drinking is proposed to have its neural locus within the system which mediates the prepotent response, rather than in a thirst system or general activation system.
  • (14) The combined results suggest that perinatal gonadal androgen exposure effects on social play are prepotent and contribute essentially to sex differences in the initiation of social play behavior.
  • (15) Electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus in 2 species of hibernator, dormice (Glis glis) and ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis), suggests that induced behaviors may reflect activation of specific neural systems, rather than merely activation of a single central mechanism interacting with internal and external cues and past experience (prepotency hypothesis).
  • (16) Just as in animals, it seems likely that the inability to hyperventilate permitted the primary cardiac reflex to occur rather than the usual response of tachycardia to chemoreceptor stimulation which is prepotent with spontaneous ventilation.
  • (17) We suggest that the fragile X patients may be more susceptible to mutagens and carcinogens and, therefore, more prepotent to neoplastic induction.
  • (18) Since speech exerts a prepotent attraction on the attention of normally developing infants, hence facilitating social engagement, we designed a technique to examine whether this inborn reaction could be at fault in young autistic children.
  • (19) These results were interpreted as indicating that the diffuse pain system was prepotent in influencing behavior when both the discrete and diffuse pain systems were activated simultaneously.
  • (20) Patterns with more elements, angles, and information as well as patterns with larger elements received longer fixation at all ages, but initially prepotent size preferences decreased with age while number preferences became stronger.

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