Deleterious in example sentence

In other words, we don’t see a completely linear relationship between the dose of the potential toxin and a deleterious effect; rather we see a distribution that looks something like a “check mark,” with concentration on the horizontal axis and some measure of damage on the vertical axis.

More example sentences with word deleterious

If you have this deleterious mutation in this gene, you're 90 percent likely to get cancer in your life.

But it also had deleterious health consequences to people.

Are we in fact putting ourselves in a situation where we're coming too close to thresholds that could lead to deleterious and very undesired, if now catastrophic, change for human development?

too bad they showed palm trees that could not be more inaccurate for Connecticut in October ... this was filmed in New Zealand ...This Martha Moxley case had been 'cold' for 20-25 years ... her family worked hard to keep it alive and when Mark Fuhrman decided he did not want to be remembered only for his involvement in the Nicole Simpson case .... which could have been deleterious to his reputation (if it already hadn't)... Anyway, he followed along as the police tried to get enough information to write a book.

All example sentences