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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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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of de novo1
First recorded in 1620–30; from Latin dē novō “anew, afresh, again”
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