Associations to the word «Pleiotropy»

Wiktionary

PLEIOTROPY, noun. (genetics) The influence of a single gene on multiple phenotypic traits; pleiotropism
PLEIOTROPY, noun. (pharmacology) The existence of drug effects other than the one for which the drug was designed; usually implies additional beneficial effects.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King