Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The application of engineering principles to the fields of biology and medicine, as in the development of aids or replacements for defective or missing body organs.
- noun Genetic engineering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun biological science applied to the study the relation between workers and their environments.
- noun the application of engineeering principles to solve problems in medicine, such as the design of artificial limbs or organs; -- called also
biomedical engineering . - noun the branch of engineering dealing with the application of biological processes to the solution of practical problems, such as the manufacture of products by fermentation, the production and use of enzymes for various purposes, the use of microorganisms in environmental cleanup, etc.; -- called also
biotechnology .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The applications of the principles of
engineering to any of thebiological ormedical sciences
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments
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Examples
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Please, pull your heads out of your tail ends and create an individual thought, because that is what true liberty entails. (for future response to those who will cloak behind your answer that I am probably just another 'lazy, dope smoking' liberal, I work full-time and am majoring in bioengineering, not an elitist, just an idealist)
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Please, pull your heads out of your tail ends and create an individual thought, because that is what true liberty entails. (for future response to those who will cloak behind your answer that I am probably just another 'lazy, dope smoking' liberal, I work full-time and am majoring in bioengineering, not an elitist, just an idealist)
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But if you're sitting there in bioengineering class dreaming about space flight, you're missing the boat.
Wayne Hale: NASA Can Provide the Inspiration - NASA Watch 2009
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Researchers hope that the discovery will lead to developments in bioengineering to help deal with climate change, or provide alternative energy sources.
US Scientist Close to Creating First Artificial Life Form | Impact Lab 2007
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He took on big subjects, such as bioengineering and climate change.
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This has motivated many researchers to work towards engineering biological tissues and organs (a field called "bioengineering") suitable for transplants.
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This has motivated many researchers to work toward engineering biological tissues and organs (a field called "bioengineering") suitable for transplants.
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This has motivated many researchers to work toward engineering biological tissues and organs (a field called "bioengineering") suitable for transplants.
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This has motivated many researchers to work towards engineering biological tissues and organs (a field called "bioengineering") suitable for transplants.
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This has motivated many researchers to work towards engineering biological tissues and organs (a field called "bioengineering") suitable for transplants.
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