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insertional
pertaining to
1. surgical or reproductive manipulation
2. molecular biological manipulation.

insertional activity
the electrical tracing produced in electromyography as a result of the insertion of the needle electrode.
insertional inactivation
in recombinant DNA technology, an early method for selecting ampicillin (amp+) and tetracycline (tet+) resistant Escherichia coli transformed with plasmids such as pBR 322; foreign DNA was cloned into the tet gene, thereby disrupting the gene and rendering the cell tet-, which enabled selection when cells were plated onto amp and tet plates.

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Sclerosing therapy in chronic Achilles tendon insertional pain: results of a pilot study.
Isolation of motile and non-motile insertional mutants of Campylobacter jejuni defective in invasion of eukaryotic cells: the role of flagella in invasion.
An anecdotal trend is that the success rate with ESWT on insertional Achilles tendonopathy may be as good or better than on plantar fasciitis.
 
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