Radioimmunoassay

Definition: Radioimmunoassay

Radioimmunoassay

Noun

1. Immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled.

Specialty Definitions: Radioimmunoassay

Domain	Definitions
Health	Classic quantitative assay for detection of antigen-antibody reactions using a radioactively labeled substance (radioligand) either directly or indirectly to measure the binding of the unlabeled substance to a specific antibody or other receptor system. Non-immunogenic substances (e.g., haptens) can be measured if coupled to larger carrier proteins (e.g., bovine gamma-globulin or human serum albumin) capable of inducing antibody formation. (references)
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Crosswords: Radioimmunoassay

Specialty definitions using "radioimmunoassay": Antigens, Tumor-Associated, Carbohydrate ♦ beta-Thromboglobulin ♦ Diagnostic Techniques, Radioisotope ♦ Fluoroimmunoassay ♦ Glycoprotein Hormones, alpha Subunit ♦ Immunoradiometric Assay ♦ Monitoring, Immunologic ♦ Radioallergosorbent Test, Radioimmunosorbent Test. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Radioimmunoassay

Domain	Title
Books	An introduction to radioimmunoassay and related techniques (reference) Clinical Application of Radioimmunoassay (reference) Handbook of radioimmunoassay (reference) Nonisotopic alternatives to radioimmunoassay : principles and applications (reference) Practical Radioimmunoassay (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Radioimmunoassay

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		CA 125 is an antigenic determinant detected by radioimmunoassay. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Radioimmunoassay

"Radioimmunoassay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.46% of the time. "Radioimmunoassay" is used about 65 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)	98.46%	64	42,009
Noun (proper)	1.54%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	65	N/A

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

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Expression: Radioimmunoassay

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "radioimmunoassay": i-radioimmunoassay.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Radioimmunoassay

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
radioimmunoassay	13
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Modern Translations: Radioimmunoassay

Language		Translations for "radioimmunoassay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		hormonal radioimmunanalyse (hormonal radioimmunoassay). (various references)

Dutch		radioimmuunessay, radio-immunologische bepaling, radioimmunobepaling. (various references)

Finnish		hormonitason määrittäminen RIA-menetelmällä (hormonal radioimmunoassay). (various references)

French		radioimmunodosage, DRI, dosage radio-immunologique, dosage radioimmunologique. (various references)

German		RIA (tidal reach), Radioimmuntest, Radioimmunotest, Radio-Immunassay. (various references)

Greek		ραδιοανοσοβιολογική δοκιμασία. (various references)

Italian		RIA, saggio radioimmunologico, dossaggio radioimmunologico. (various references)

Pig Latin		adioimmunoassayray.(various references)

Portuguese		dosagem radio-imunológica. (various references)

Spanish		radioinmunoensayo. (various references)

Swedish		hormonell RIA-teknik (hormonal radioimmunoassay). (various references)
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Derivations: Radioimmunoassay

Derivations
	Words beginning with "radioimmunoassay": radioimmunoassayable, radioimmunoassays. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Radioimmunoassay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-i-i-m-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-u-y"
	-5 letters: immunoassay.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-d-i-i-m-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-u-y"
	+1 letter: radioimmunoassays.
	+4 letters: radioimmunoassayable.
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