Modifies a noun

• allele: I am interested to see if purging of deleterious alleles by selection is occurring in captive populations.

• mutation: Software page Adam's software to calculate the fitness effects of deleterious mutations is available from his software page.

• effect: No deleterious effects on the eyes have been reported.

• consequence: High rise living is known to have deleterious consequences for children.

• impact: I've mentioned some of the deleterious impacts of climate change.

• influence: It is sometimes said to me that writing and speaking upon the events of war may have a deleterious influence upon youth.

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: Here, we consider the potentially deleterious effect of this oscillation on the qubit rotation.

• extremely: The CBA recognizes that chemicals in the environment can have an extremely deleterious effect on human health, habitats and wildlife.

• slightly: We have also been attempting to estimate the rate of adaptive amino acid substitution and the proportion of mutations which are slightly deleterious.

• very: It would, however, be very deleterious if important subjects were not adequately covered.

• positively: Rather the opposite in fact, channeling money from government to government has been shown to be positively deleterious to those receiving it.

• possibly: CVA may not cause disease in these trees, but it is possibly deleterious as a synergist necessary for disease development.

Used with adjective complement

• become: All interference in ' the market ' becomes deleterious to the felicitous outcome of ' spontaneous order ' .