potencies in English

noun

1

the power of something to affect the mind or body.

a myth of enormous potency

synonyms: forcefulness, force, effectiveness, persuasiveness, cogency, influence, strength, authoritativeness, authority, power, powerfulness, puissance

2

a male's ability to achieve an erection or to reach orgasm.

medications that diminish sexual potency

noun

forcefulness, force, effectiveness, persuasiveness, cogency, influence, strength, authoritativeness, authority, power, powerfulness, puissance
strength, powerfulness, power, effectiveness, efficacy, efficaciousness
authority, say-so, dominance, authorization
potentiality, potential
effectiveness, strength
potence

Use "potencies" in a sentence

1. Most classification systems do not take into account the wide range of potencies of these chemicals.

2. Hughes advocated the use of low potencies prescribed on pathological grounds rather than on the patient's general symptom picture.

3. Although he started out using crude, undiluted tinctures, towards the end of his life he was using very high potencies.

4. In the 5th Organon Hahnemann states that the Centesimal potencies are quick in their onset and tend to aggravation in the beginning of chronic treatment. In the 6th Organon Hahnemann states that the LM potencies are gradual and tend to aggravate at the end of treatment

5. Lippe said, “patients scientifically treated (by Allopaths) rarely survive the first seven days,” while “under homœopathic treatment the mortality has been ‘none." In 1849, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, he treated “over 150 cases of malignant scarlet fever with the 200th and higher potencies exclusively—mortality—none.

6. Introduction:-Bioassay is defined as estimation or determination of concentration or potency of physical, chemical or biological agents by means of measuring and comparing the magnitude of the response of the test with that of standard over a suitable biological system under standard set of conditions.An assay is a form of biological experiment; but the interest lies in comparing the potencies

7. Using a radioimmunoassay to measure the relative potencies of a wide range of chemically modified structures related to the H-type 2 human blood group determinant, evidence was accumulated that the binding of αLFuc(1→2)βDGal(1→4)-βDGlcNAc-OMe by the lectin I of Ulexeuropaeus involves a wedge-shaped amphiphilic surface which extends on one side of the molecule from the methoxy aglycon to OH-3 of the βDGal unit.