"There may be a hypothetical mechanism where Zelnorm will cause vasal spasms in the arteries," Dr. Jenkins said.

Pangenesis was Charles Darwin's hypothetical mechanism for heredity.

Tired light is a class of hypothetical redshift mechanisms that was proposed as an alternative explanation for the redshift-distance relationship.

As Dr. Ondetti put it in an interview, "Capoten really was the first example of rational drug design based on a hypothetical biological mechanism."

Nothing is agreed, from fundamental data to the evidence for particular hypothetical mechanisms.

There are several proposed hypothetical mechanisms of active DNA demethylation:

The claimants cannot depend on a hypothetical legal mechanism; they must depend on existing law.

This has been termed an 'adaptive response' and is related to hypothetical mechanisms of hormesis.

A second hypothetical mechanism takes into account the coordinate, two-step release of sister chromatid cohesion that is essential for the two meiotic divisions [ 38 ] .