anteriorize

English

Etymology

From anterior +‎ -ize.

Verb

anteriorize (third-person singular simple present anteriorizes, present participle anteriorizing, simple past and past participle anteriorized)

1. To inhibit posteriorization
   • 2015 September 23, “Rdh10a Provides a Conserved Critical Step in the Synthesis of Retinoic Acid during Zebrafish Embryogenesis”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     In support of the latter idea, the work in Xenopus found that Rdh10 mRNA did not produce overt phenotypes alone, but could anteriorize embryos when co-injected with Aldh1a2 mRNA, indicating these two enzymes together are necessary to enhance the production of RA [29 ].

Derived terms

• anteriorization
• dorsoanteriorize