Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody.
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- noun A procedure that uses the
binding of aradioactively labeled substance to anantibody in order toanalyze minute amounts ofbiological compounds
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- noun immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rosalyn Yalow (1921 -), "medical physicist" who "won a Nobel prize for her work developing the radioimmunoassay technique"
Archive 2008-06-01 Peggy 2008
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She and a younger colleague, Solomon Berson, developed methods for the radioimmunoassay -- an analytic tool that allows investigators to survey minute quantities of hormones, viruses, and chemicals in human beings.
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She and a younger colleague, Solomon Berson, developed methods for the radioimmunoassay -- an analytic tool that allows investigators to survey minute quantities of hormones, viruses, and chemicals in human beings.
Personal Information for Rosalyn S. Yalow Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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Rosalyn Yalow (1921 -), "medical physicist" who "won a Nobel prize for her work developing the radioimmunoassay technique"
Vote for the "most celebrated female scientist of all time" Peggy 2008
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These initial experiments led to the discovery of radioimmunoassay (RIA), an ingenious application of nuclear physics in clinical medicine.
Rosalyn Yalow. 2009
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The hospital signed a new contract with them for our complex chem and radioimmunoassay work.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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We used to send all our GC-MS and radioimmunoassay tests to BloodTek, in Portland.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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The hospital signed a new contract with them for our complex chem and radioimmunoassay work.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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The hospital signed a new contract with them for our complex chem and radioimmunoassay work.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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We used to send all our GC-MS and radioimmunoassay tests to BloodTek, in Portland.
Bloodstream Tess Gerritsen 1998
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