Definition of Overdominant

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Overdominant

1. Denoting heterozygous states that exhibit overdominance. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdominant

overdiversities
overdiversity
overdo
overdocument
overdocumented
overdocumenting
overdocuments
overdoer
overdoers
overdoes
overdog
overdogs
overdoing
overdominance
overdominances
overdominant (current term)
overdone
overdoor
overdoors
overdoped
overdosage
overdosages
overdose
overdosed
overdoser
overdosers
overdoses
overdosing
overdot
overdots

Literary usage of Overdominant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Life of Robert R. McBurney by Lawrence Locke Doggett (1902)
"His chief failing, an occasional brusque, overdominant way, native to his Scotch-Irish character, was often turned to account for the deepening of ..."

2. Mammalian Embryo Genomics by OECD Staff, Oecd, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2003)
"... callipyge, that results in polar overdominant inheritance of skeletal muscle hypertrophy (1,2). The objective of this experiment was to characterize ..."

3. A Simple Method of Modern Harmony by Carl William Grimm (1900)
"The Minor Subdominant adds the fifth of the minor or major overdominant (in A-minor dfa | b; in C-major f at7 c | d). ..."

4. The Pre-Adamite, Or, Who Tempted Eve?: Scripture and Science in Unison as ...by A. Hoyle Lester by A. Hoyle Lester (1875)
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