dysregulate
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dysregulate (third-person singular simple present dysregulates, present participle dysregulating, simple past and past participle dysregulated)
- (biology) To cause a dysfunctional level of an activity or chemical in an organism by disrupting normal function of a regulatory mechanism.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 285:
- What, beyond abnormal, dysregulated cell division, was the common pathophysiological mechanism underlying cancer?