PHENOTYPIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phenotypic mean? 

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

1. of or relating to or constituting a phenotype

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHENOTYPIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or constituting a phenotype

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

phenotypic; phenotypical

Context example:

phenotypical profile

Pertainym:

phenotype (what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment)

Derivation:

phenotype (what an organism looks like as a consequence of the interaction of its genotype and the environment)

 Context examples 

It shares serologic reactivity and sequence homology with the simian Lentivirus SIV and infects only T4-lymphocytes expressing the CD4 phenotypic marker.

(Human Immunodeficiency Virus 2, NCI Thesaurus)

The phylum is highly diverse in phenotypic characteristics.

(Firmicutes, NCI Thesaurus)

A mutation that results in either no gene product or the absence of function at the phenotypic level.

(Null Allele, NCI Dictionary)

The majority of patients present as phenotypic females with virilization.

(Ovarian Gonadoblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A phenotypic trait or disease that resembles the trait expressed by a particular genotype, but in an individual who is not a carrier of that genotype.

(Phenocopy, NCI Dictionary)

Either phenotypic or genetic changes that occur in an organism from generation to generation through the exchange of genes.

(Evolutionary change, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Human HTC2 gene is located within Xq24-q27.1 and the size of this phenotypic locus is not reported.

(HTC2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologic process in which alterations at the molecular level result in a more aggressive cytologic and phenotypic profile and clinical course of a malignant neoplasm.

(Cancer Progression, NCI Thesaurus)

A primitive malignant soft tissue sarcoma that recapitulates the phenotypic and biological features of embryonic skeletal muscle.

(Botryoid-Type Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

EXAMPLE(S): The specific genotypic or phenotypic variant of an animal.

(Animal Organism Strain, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)