Collocations withalteration

These are words often used in combination withalteration.

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drastic alteration
It is far too early to make such a drastic alteration as this.
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epigenetic alteration
Patients can be divided into subgroups with particular cytogenetic, molecular genetic or epigenetic alterations.
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extensive alteration
An unanticipated byproduct of this extensive alteration was the introduction of caries and the formation of abscesses.
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fundamental alteration
Children who experience maltreatment, however, often show a fundamental alteration of the organization of evaluation, representing themselves and their worlds in pervasively negative terms.
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genetic alteration
Furthermore, they can contribute to germ cells and transmit the genetic alteration through the germline, producing mutant lines of mice.
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human alteration
This intervention on the male body as a covenantal symbol was a statement of human faith and human alteration against powerful instinctual response.
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major alteration
The inviscid-viscous interaction in this case does not involve a major alteration of the outer flow, and hence is strictly a local interaction problem.
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minor alteration
Novel combinations conferring advantage can be fixed by minor alteration in the (presumably intronic) splicing recognition sites.
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permanent alteration
It is, so far as anything can be permanent, intended to be a permanent alteration in our fiscal policy.
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proposed alteration
It would be rather invidious to make the proposed alteration.
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radical alteration
The proposal is the most radical alteration in the property law of this country since the abolition of the feudal system.
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significant alteration
However, during a successful pregnancy in chronically infected mice a significant alteration of the maternal immune response was not observed.
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slight alteration
While such a situation certainly has unfortunate economic effects - for everyone else - how much worse it would be if we made a slight alteration in our description.
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subsequent alteration
In this work, the subsequent alteration of these organic materials under hydrothermal conditions, which have been likely to occur in carbonaceous chondrites parent bodies and comets, is experimentally addressed.
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substantial alteration
Sometimes this has involved a substantial alteration, such as removing one whole act of an opera.
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