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avianize

avianize verb: to attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.

Verb

avianize (third-person singular simple present avianizes, present participle avianizing, simple past and past participle avianized)

  1. To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
    • In Japan a lapinized/avianized vaccine was developed which was used extensively to control the disease in Asia. [.].. The Onderstepoort strain was attenuated by growth in avian cells [...]1994, Encyclopedia of Virology, volume 3, page 1267
  2. (rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
    • […] In the third stratum dances the spirits impersonated in the kuksuyu and kilaki, which elsewhere are regarded as anthropomorphic deity and dragon respectively, are by the Central and some Northern Miwok identified with birds, the kuksuyu with a shore bird, the kilaki with a hawk. This is perhaps...1922, Edward Winslow Gifford, Californian Kinship Terminologies, page 408

Forms of avianize

third-person singular presentavianizes
present participleavianizing
past participleavianized
pastavianized

Origin of avianize

From avian + -ize.

Questions about avianize

What does avianize mean?
Avianize means to attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
What part of speech is avianize?
Avianize is a verb.
What is the past tense of avianize?
The past tense of avianize is avianized.

Words near avianize in the dictionary

  1. avian ingestion
  2. avian ingestions
  3. Aviana
  4. avianise
  5. avianization
  6. avianize
  7. avianized
  8. avianizes
  9. avianizing
  10. avianlike
  11. Avianna

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