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FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY

Specialty Definition: FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY

DomainDefinition

Health

The use of fluorescence spectrometry to obtain quantitative results for the fluorescent antibody technique. One advantage over the other methods (e.g., radioimmunoassay) is its extreme sensitivity, with a detection limit on the order of tenths of microgram/liter. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY

Synonym by domain: fia (chemistry).

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Crosswords: FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY

Specialty definitions using "FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY": Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay. (references)

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Usage Frequency: FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY

"FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FLUOROIMMUNOASSAY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 4C 55 4F 52 4F 49 4D 4D 55 4E 4F 41 53 53 41 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 0055 004F 0052 004F 0049 004D 004D 0055 004E 004F 0041 0053 0053 0041 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4046554952494347475548493553533559

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INDEX

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3. Usage Frequency
4. Orthography
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