1. The quality of being incompatible. 2. A means of classifying bacterial plasmids; two plasmids are incompatible if they cannot coexist in one host cell.
- physiologic i. a form of i. in which the substances in a mixture exert opposing physiologic actions. SYN: therapeutic i..
- therapeutic i. SYN: physiologic i..
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in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty .in-kəm-.pat-ə-'bil-ət-ē n, pl -ties the quality or state of being incompatible <chemical \incompatibility>
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in·com·pat·i·bil·i·ty (in″kəm-pat″ĭ-bilґĭ-te) the quality of being incompatible. See also histoincompatibility.Medical dictionary. 2011.