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RESPONSIBLE FOR
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being the agent or cause
Example:
termites were responsible for the damage
Synonyms:
responsible; responsible for
Classified under:
Similar:
causative (producing an effect)
Context examples:
And now, for the first time in my life, I found myself responsible for some one else.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The individual who is responsible for the content of a document.
(Author, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The physician responsible for the administration and medical care a patient receives.
(Attending Physician, NCI Thesaurus)
The posterior one third of the tongue behind the terminal sulcus that forms the anterior aspect of the oro-pharynx responsible for swallowing and modification of the voice in speech.
(Base of the Tongue, NCI Thesaurus)
The microglial cells are responsible for clearing out old and worn out cells via a process called phagocytosis - meaning "to devour" in Greek.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A coded value specifying the anatomical grouping that consists of organs and organ subclasses that are together responsible for certain body functions.
(Body System Code, NCI Thesaurus)
A branch of pharmacology that studies the biochemical mechanisms responsible for the actions of pharmacologic substances.
(Biochemical Pharmacology, NCI Thesaurus)
Any substance that inhibits aromatase, an enzyme responsible for the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone and the peripheral aromatization of androgenic precursors into estrogens.
(Aromatase inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), produced within mitochondria, inhibit the function of EAAT2, the main glial glutamate transporter protein, responsible for most of the reuptake of synaptically released glutamate.
(Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
Aliskiren selectively binds to the S3 sub-pocket of renin, an enzyme in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) that is responsible for converting angiotensinogen to angiotensin I (AT I).
(Aliskiren, NCI Thesaurus)
