Deletion

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  • noun. The act of deleting; removal by striking out.
  • noun. Material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.
  • noun. The loss, as through mutation, of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing.
  • noun. An erasure; a word or passage deleted.
  • noun. A blotting out, as of an object; obliteration; suppression; extinction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act of deleting, blotting out, or erasing; destruction.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An item that has been or will be deleted.
  • noun. The act of deleting.
  • noun. A mutation in which a gene, or other section of DNA, is removed from a chromosome
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
  • noun. the act of deleting something written or printed
  • noun. the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
  • noun. any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases
  • Word Usage
    "Because the 22q11. 2 deletion is such a rare disorder, even many healthcare professionals may find themselves at a loss when it comes to diagnosing and managing it."
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