revertent
A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system
obsolete
Any remedy that restores something to its desired natural state.
Dear Rowland, it must be your business and mine to experimentalize on the utility and practicability of a revertent to this disgusting disorder which now vexes and threatens death to the state.
A mutation that reverts or undoes the effects of another mutation.
A revertent having restored levels of ornithine decarboxylase has been reported () and is probably a second site revertent which compensates for ts4.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French revertent, from Latin revertor, equivalent to revert + -ent.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry revertent (CC BY-SA 4.0).