avianise

Thân thiện

A scientist avianises a virus in a laboratory incubator.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo: This is a technical term used in microbiology and virology. It refers to a specific laboratory process where a pathogen (like a virus or bacterium) is adapted to grow in avian (bird) embryos, often to attenuate it for vaccine development.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Researchers will avianise the influenza strain to study its adaptation.
  • The laboratory successfully avianised the virus over several generations of egg passage.

Advanced Usage

• This term is almost exclusively used in scientific and medical research contexts. It describes a precise, multi-step laboratory technique.
• The process of a virus can alter its properties, such as making it less virulent for mammals, which is a key step in creating some vaccines.

Variants and Related Words

• Avianization (noun): The process or result of making something avian or adapting it to birds.
  • The avianization of the virus was necessary for the vaccine's development.

Synonyms

• Attenuate (via egg passage): To reduce the severity or virulence of a pathogen, often through methods like serial passage in eggs.
• Adapt (to avian hosts): To adjust or modify for growth in bird embryos.

Notes on Meaning

• The term is highly specialized. The core meaning is the methodological adaptation of a microorganism through serial culture in chick embryos. It is not used in general or conversational English.

Học thuật

Verb

1. to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo

Từ đồng nghĩa

• avianize