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UNDERGO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: undergone    , underwent   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass through

Example:

undergo a strange sensation

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "undergo" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "undergo"):

respire (undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide)

labor; labour (undergo the efforts of childbirth)

submit; take (accept or undergo, often unwillingly)

experience; get; have; receive (go through (mental or physical states or experiences))

experience; go through; see (undergo or live through a difficult experience)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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 Context examples: 

A specimen that has undergone calcification.

(Calcified Specimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Total estimated length of time during which a clinical study subject is expected to undergo an intervention in the framework of a clinical trial.

(Planned Intervention Duration for Study Subject, NCI Thesaurus)

A primitive undifferentiated cell which can undergo division and can give rise to one of the early megakaryocytes.

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell Committed to the Megakaryocytic Lineage, NCI Thesaurus)

It was unreasonable that he should die after all he had undergone.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The product is expected to undergo clinical testing by the end of next year and be made available in the market in 2020.

(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)

This third scenario mimicked the changes the human heart undergoes during the last few weeks of fetal development and after birth.

(Early stimulation improves performance of bioengineered human heart cells, National Institutes of Health)

Their study in mice also found that animals undergoing dietary restriction were better protected against tumors and bacterial infections than animals with unrestricted diets.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

It is also being evaluated for its protective effects on the gastrointestinal tract in people undergoing radiation therapy.

(Pentosan polysulfate, NCI Dictionary)

Indicates whether a specimen that had undergone a pharmacokinetic concentration assessment was obtained from a subject that had abstained from food and possibly water for the prescribed amount of time.

(Pharmacokinetic Concentration Fasting Status, NCI Thesaurus)

As time passed, the genetic damage increased, and cells underwent apoptosis (non-inflammatory cell death) and necrosis (cell death that leads to inflammation)”.

(Lung damage from agricultural fires probed, SciDev.Net)