DISRUPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disrupted mean? 

• DISRUPTED (adjective)
  The adjective DISRUPTED has 1 sense:

1. marked by breaks or gaps

  Familiarity information: DISRUPTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISRUPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by breaks or gaps

Context example:

many routes are unsafe or disrupted

Similar:

discontinuous; noncontinuous (not continuing without interruption in time or space)

 Context examples 

These results, they said, demonstrate that hypocretin loss during disrupted sleep contributes to inflammation and atherosclerosis.

(Study helps solve mystery of how sleep protects against heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

If that signal is disrupted or blocked, the liver continues to make more sugar, pouring it into the bloodstream.

(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Expression of the ADAM 11 gene is disrupted in cancers such as breast and ovarian cancer due to gene rearrangements.

(ADAM11 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Their sleep-wake cycles were normal, whereas the other 6 had disrupted sleep patterns.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

In addition, removing BMAL1 from the muscle severely disrupted normal sleep, leading to an increased need for sleep, deeper sleep, and a reduced ability to recover.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Recurrent three-way translocations of BCL7A with MYC and IGH occur in a high-grade B cell non-Hodgkin (Burkitt) lymphoma; the N-terminal BCL7A region is disrupted.

(BCL7A Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

BARD1/BRCA1 interaction is disrupted by tumorigenic amino acid substitutions in BRCA1; a stable BARD1/BRCA1 complex may be essential to BRCA1 tumor suppression.

(BRCA1 Associated RING Domain Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

Mice whose genome contains a gene whose function has been disrupted, or "knocked-out".

(Knock-Out Mouse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A condition in which normal metabolic processes are disrupted, usually because of a missing enzyme.

(Metabolic disorder, NCI Dictionary)

The gene encoding this protein is similar to a mouse putative tumor suppressor gene that is frequently disrupted by mouse AIDS-related virus (MRV).

(JAW1-Related Protein, NCI Thesaurus)