revertent /ɹɪˈvɜː(ɹ)tənt/noun 3adjective 1forms 1 noun3 •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. — 1848 •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. — 1982 •(no longer used) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system adjective1 •Having reverted to a previous (more basic or more natural) state.As can be seen from the data for the control cultures, the variability in the numbers of revertent colonies observed in the absence of any specific mutant can be quite large. — 1979 formsrevertents
