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nanotainer

noun

Etymology

From nano- + container, introduced by the startup Theranos.

  1. inherited from conteyner
  2. prefixed as nanotainer — “nano + container”

Definitions

  1. A small container used to hold a blood sample.

    • It has already received one approval, on a test for herpes simplex virus type 1, and will continue to use the nanotainer for that test.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nanotainer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA