Bioassay

Definitions: Bioassay

Bioassay

Noun

1. Appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard.

Verb

1. Subject to a bio-assay.

Specialty Definitions: Bioassay

Domain	Definitions
Energy	The determination of kinds, quantities or concentrations, and in some cases, the locations, of radioactive material in the human body, whether by direct measurement (in vivo counting) or by analysis and evaluation of materials excreted or removed (in vitro) from the human body. (references)
Environment	A test to determine te relative strength of a substance by comparing its effect on a test organism with that of a standard preparation. (references)
General	Determination of the relative effective strength of a substance (as a vitamin, hormone, or drug) by comparing its effect on a test organism with that of a standard preparation. . . Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	The determination of the biological activity of a substance, e. g. a drug, by observing its effect on an organism(or organ)compared to a standard preparation. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A determination of the concentration of a substance in biological fluids and tissue by analysis of urine, feces, blood, bone, tissue, etc. (references)
Science	A measurement of the effects of a substance on living organisms. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Bioassay

Commercial Usage: Bioassay

Domain	Title
Books	Applicability of Single Species Bioassay for Estimating the Effects of a Refinery Effluent on a Estuarine Environment (Api Publication No 4401) (reference) Atmospheric Chemical Compounds: Sources, Occurrence, and Bioassay (reference) Bioassay Development for Identification of Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibitors of Natural Origin (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the fa (reference) Bioassay Methods in Natural Product Research and Drug Development (Proceedings of the Phytochemical Society of Europe, Volume 43) (reference) Bioassay of Pesticides in the Laboratory: Research and Quality Control (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Bioassay

"Bioassay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bioassay" is used about 5 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)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bioassay

Modern Translations: Bioassay

Language		Translations for "bioassay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		�"�物鉴定. (various references)

Danish		biotest, biologisk test, bioassay. (various references)

Dutch		biotest, biologische test, bioassay. (various references)

Finnish		biologinen testi. (various references)

French		bio-essai, titrage biologique, essai biologique, épreuve biologique. (various references)

German		Biotest, Tierversuch (animal experiment). (various references)

Greek		βιολογική δοκιμασία, βιοδοκιμή. (various references)

Italian		biotest, test biologico, saggio biologico, prova biologica. (various references)

Pig Latin		ioassaybay

Portuguese		bioensaio. (various references)

Spanish		bioensayo, prueba realizada con animales, ensayo biológico. (various references)

Swedish		biotest, bioassay. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Bioassay

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bioassay": bioassayed, bioassaying, bioassays. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bioassay" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bafoussam, bioasay, Bipasha. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Bioassay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-o-s-s-y"
	-3 letters: abyss, assai, assay, basis, bassi, basso, bassy, bossy, byssi, isbas, oasis, obias, ossia, soyas.
	-4 letters: abas, abos, abys, baas, bass, bays, bias, bios, boas, boss, boys, isba, obia, obis, ossa, sabs, says, sibs, sobs, soya, soys, sybo, yobs.
	-5 letters: aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ais, ass, ays, baa, bas, bay, bio, bis, boa.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-o-s-s-y"
	+1 letter: bioassays.
	+2 letters: bioassayed.
	+3 letters: bioassaying.
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