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Definition: Immunoassay |
ImmunoassayNoun1. Identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen; "PSA in the blood can be measured with an immunochemical assay". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Immunochemical assay or detection of a substance by serologic or immunologic methods. Usually the substance being studied serves as antigen both in antibody production and in measurement of antibody by the test substance. (references) |
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Synonym: ImmunoassaySynonym: immunochemical assay (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Immunoassay |
| English words defined with "immunoassay": radioimmunoassay. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "immunoassay": Antibodies, Anticardiolipin ♦ C-Peptide ♦ Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique ♦ fluorescence immunoassay, Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay. (references) |
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Business | The market leaders in immunoassay analyzers and reagents include Abbott, Boehringer, Sysmex, Roche, Chiron, Bayer, and Baxter. (references) | |
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| "Immunoassay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immunoassay" is used about 24 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 24 | 71,196 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "immunoassay": Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique ♦ fluorescence immunoassay ♦ Fluorescence Polarization Immunoassay. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
immunoassay | 28 |
enzyme immunoassay | 5 |
fluorescence polarization immunoassay | 4 |
immunoassay kit | 2 |
immunoassay noradrenaline | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "immunoassay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | immunoassay. (various references) | |
Dutch | immunoassay. (various references) | |
Finnish | immunofluoresenssimenetelmä (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), kompetitiivinen ELISA (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay). (various references) | |
French | immuno-essai par fluorescence (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), essai par immunofluorescence (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), dosage immuno-enzymatique (enzyme immunoassay). (various references) | |
German | Immunofluoreszenzversuch (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), Enzym-Immunassay (enzyme immunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), EIA (enzyme immunoassay). (various references) | |
Greek | μέθοδος ανοσοφθορισμού (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), ανταγωνιστική ΕLΙSΑ (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay), ανταγωνιστική ενζυμική δοκιμή ανοσοπροσρόφησης (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay), ανοσοφθορισμός (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence). (various references) | |
Italian | saggio immunofluorimetrico (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), saggio immunoenzimatico ELISA per competizione (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay), saggio immunoenzimatico (enzyme immunoassay), ELISA per competizione (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | immunoassayay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imunofluorescência (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), ELISA competitivo (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay). (various references) | |
Spanish | inmunoensayo. (various references) | |
Swedish | kompetitiv ELISA (competitive ELISA, competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay), fluorescens-immunanalys (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence), fluorescence immunoassay (fluorescence immunoassay, immunofluorescence). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "immunoassay": immunoassayable, immunoassays. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "immunoassay": radioimmunoassay. (additional references) | |
Words containing "immunoassay": radioimmunoassayable, radioimmunoassays. (additional references) | |
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"Immunoassay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: immunoassy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-o-s-s-u-y" | |
-3 letters: ammonias, anosmias. | |
-4 letters: ammonia, amusias, anosmia, miasmas, mimosas, monisms, myosins, nomisms, osmiums, sanious, suasion, summons. | |
-5 letters: ammino, amnios, amusia, animas, animus, imaums, manias, masons, miaous, miasma, miasms, mimosa, missay, monism, myasis, myomas, myosin, myosis, nomism, omasum, osmium, samosa, saunas, simony, summas, summon, unsays, yamuns. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-m-n-o-s-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: immunoassays. | |
+4 letters: immunoassayable. | |
+5 letters: radioimmunoassay. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)I m m u n o a s s a y |
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