disequilibrium
noun
dis·equi·lib·ri·um
(ˌ)dis-ˌē-kwə-ˈli-brē-əm 
-ˌe-kwə-
: loss or lack of equilibrium
Examples of disequilibrium in a Sentence
The condition is caused by a disequilibrium in the brain's chemistry.
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One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium.
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Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
If disequilibrium equals opportunity, Zero Party Data Analytics just might provide both retailers and brands with a …new compass.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
In contrast additive effects are less sensitive to decay in linkage disequilibrium, which measures the association of alleles across genes, so that one marker may serve as a signal for the presence of another variant down or up the genome.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
From first principles, this approach can replicate the most obvious example of atmospheric disequilibrium today on our planet—the presence of oxygen and traces of methane (the latter being the gentle exhalations of the once mighty methanogen biosphere).
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
Using the most sensitive measure of recent consanguinity, a statistic of run of homozygosity pruned of markers in linkage disequilibrium, the authors did not find a strong effect of magnitude of inbreeding increasing the depression.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
That's called disequilibrium.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
Billy's severe psychotic episodes point to a brain in disequilibrium and, correspondingly, to the need for drugs and treatments to alter this pathology as a basic standard of care.
—Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
So linkage disequilibrium, where genetic variants (alleles) across loci (genes) exhibit non-random statistical associations, varies over time as the correlations decay due to recombination.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
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Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
If disequilibrium equals opportunity, Zero Party Data Analytics just might provide both retailers and brands with a …new compass.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
In contrast additive effects are less sensitive to decay in linkage disequilibrium, which measures the association of alleles across genes, so that one marker may serve as a signal for the presence of another variant down or up the genome.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
From first principles, this approach can replicate the most obvious example of atmospheric disequilibrium today on our planet—the presence of oxygen and traces of methane (the latter being the gentle exhalations of the once mighty methanogen biosphere).
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
Using the most sensitive measure of recent consanguinity, a statistic of run of homozygosity pruned of markers in linkage disequilibrium, the authors did not find a strong effect of magnitude of inbreeding increasing the depression.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
That's called disequilibrium.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2022
Billy's severe psychotic episodes point to a brain in disequilibrium and, correspondingly, to the need for drugs and treatments to alter this pathology as a basic standard of care.
—Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
So linkage disequilibrium, where genetic variants (alleles) across loci (genes) exhibit non-random statistical associations, varies over time as the correlations decay due to recombination.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
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First Known Use
1840, in the meaning defined above
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Medical Definition
disequilibrium
noun
dis·equi·lib·ri·um
(ˌ)dis-ˌē-kwə-ˈlib-rē-əm, -ˌek-wə-
plural disequilibriums or disequilibria
-rē-ə
: loss or lack of equilibrium
ionic disequilibrium in a resting nerve cell
emotional disequilibrium
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