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Impotency
Impotence Im"po*tence, Impotency Im"po*ten*cy, n. [L. impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See Impotent.] 1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. --Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! --Milton. 2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] --Milton. 3. (Law & Med.) Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
Plenipotency
Plenipotence Ple*nip"o*tence, Plenipotency Ple*nip"o*ten*cy, n. The quality or state of being plenipotent. [R.]

Meaning of Potency from wikipedia

- Look up potency in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Potency may refer to: Potency (pharmacology), a measure of the activity of a drug in a biological...
- In pharmacology, potency or biological potency is a measure of a drug's biological activity expressed in terms of the dose required to produce a pharmacological...
- Cell potency is a cell's ability to differentiate into other cell types. The more cell types a cell can differentiate into, the greater its potency. Potency...
- work of the Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), orgastic potency is a human's natural ability to experience an **** with certain psychosomatic...
- of the diluted substance, and that successive dilutions increased the "potency" of the preparation, although other strands of homeopathy (such as Schuessler's)...
- Glucocorticoid potency, duration of effect, and the overlapping mineralocorticoid potency vary. Cortisol is the standard of comparison for glucocorticoid potency. Hydrocortisone...
- In psychology, libido (/lɪˈbiːdoʊ/; from the Latin libīdō, 'desire') is psychic drive or energy, usually conceived of as ****ual in nature, but sometimes...
- dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction, tied closely as it is to cultural notions of potency, success and masculinity, can have devastating psychological consequences...
- known as cell proliferation, while maintaining the undifferentiated state. Potency: the capacity to differentiate into specialized cell types. In the strictest...
- transmitting a signal into the cell. Potency is the amount of agonist needed to elicit a desired response. The potency of an agonist is inversely related...