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de novo
[ dee noh-voh, dey, dih; Latin de noh-woh ]
adverb
- anew; afresh; again; from the beginning:
We reviewed the court’s decision de novo during the rehearing.
- independently of external forces; from within; spontaneously:
Mutations associated with autism often occur de novo rather than through inheritance.
adjective
- occurring or arising spontaneously or independently of external forces; spontaneous: de novo synthesis of steroids from cholesterol.
de novo mutations;
de novo synthesis of steroids from cholesterol.
- made from scratch rather than developed from or based on something preexisting, and hence new, novel, or of a new type: de novo banks.
de novo protein design;
de novo banks.
- De No·vo, noting or related to a type of FDA classification allowing novel medical devices with no precedent on the market to be sold: De Novo classification.
a De Novo request;
De Novo classification.
de novo
/ diː ˈnəʊvəʊ /
adverb
- from the beginning; anew
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
These de novo mutations wouldn’t show up on a couple’s risk report generated by Orchid.
We either de novo invested in or acquired other health care disciplines such as physician staffing, allied staffing, pharmacists, health care leaders, billing, coding, revenue cycle, etc.
Out of this vast sea of mud Nature has had to evolve another creation, beginning de novo, with her lowest forms.
The court treated it as an original proceeding, even as to questions of fact; and proceeded to consider it de novo.
By its very nature a duct is a structure which can hardly arise de novo.
As is well known, a language is not created de novo, but by a slow process of development.
In the illustration above we have assumed that a monopoly was starting de novo.
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