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radioimmunoassay

noun

Etymology

From radio- + immunoassay.

  1. derived from essai
  2. derived from assaier
  3. derived from assai
  4. inherited from assay
  5. prefixed as immunoassay — “immuno + assay”
  6. prefixed as radioimmunoassay — “radio + immunoassay”

Definitions

  1. A procedure that uses the binding of a radioactively labeled substance to an antibody in…

    A procedure that uses the binding of a radioactively labeled substance to an antibody in order to analyze minute amounts of biological compounds.

  2. To assay by this process.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for radioimmunoassay. 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