induced

[in-doost, -dyoost]

adjective

1. brought about, produced, or caused, especially artificially (often used in combination).

   Medical intervention in childbirth has become the norm, with hospitals relying on epidurals, C-sections, and induced labor.

   The field expedition to the Greenland Sea will study climate-induced changes in the marine food web.

2. Physics.,  (of an electric current) produced by induction.

   As a coil on a pendulum passes between the poles of an electromagnet, the induced current causes the small bulb to light up.

3. Genetics.,  (of a gene) having increased expression as a result of the inactivation of a negative control system or the activation of a positive control system (often used in combination).

   The induced genes in the transgenic variety were of unknown function.

   Our focus is on the serum-induced genes cloned from fibroblasts.

4. Biochemistry.,  noting or relating to a protein, especially an enzyme, whose synthesis has been stimulated by increased gene transcription (often used in combination).

   These induced proteins are unlikely to affect cellular DNA repair directly.

   We can now speculate that the heat-induced proteins play an important role in gastric cell protection.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of induce.

Other Word Forms

• noninduced adjective
• quasi-induced adjective
• uninduced adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of induced¹

induce ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

They were adopted in reaction to a history of dangerous and discredited practices, including treatments that induced nausea and vomiting or administered electric shocks.

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The 21-year-old died on Thursday after several days in an induced coma.

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"After sustaining a significant brain injury last Saturday, Billy Vigar was put into an induced coma," the family said.

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He was diagnosed with a "drug induced psychosis or drug induced depressive psychosis".

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Perpetual, mother to five-year-old twins, was hospitalised with Covid in 2020 and was so ill she was put in an induced coma.

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