Medical Term:
attenuator
Pronunciation: ă-ten′yū-ā-tŏr, -tōr
Definition:
- An electrical system of resistors and capacitors used to reduce the strength of electrical signals, as in ultrasonography.
- The terminator sequence in DNA at which attenuation occurs; located between the operator and the gene for the first protein in an operon.
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
