Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lysogeny

1 sense of lysogeny

Sense 1
lysogeny, lysogenicity -- (the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material; "when a phage infects a bacterium it can either destroy its host or be incorporated in the host genome in a state of lysogeny")
       => condition -- (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition")