biologic
UK/bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/
biologic adjective: biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
Adjective
biologic (not comparable)
- Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
- Biologic femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
- A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.2022 November 17, Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, “FDA approves first treatment to delay onset of type 1 diabetes”, in CNN
- Synonyms:
- biological
Noun
biologic (plural biologics)
- An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or from products of a living organism.
- It involved 136 biologics approved in the United States and 105 in the European Union between January 1995 and June 2007. A total of 41, or nearly 24 percent, got safety warnings issued through June 2008.2008 October 21, The Associated Press, “1 in 4 new bio meds cause serious side effects”, in NBC News
- Synonyms:
- biopharmaceutical
biologic meaning in Tamil and Gujarati
biologic in Tamil
- உயிரியல்சார்
biologic in Gujarati
- biologic, biological
- જૈવિક jaivik
Examples of biologic in a sentence
- One midrash, perhaps influenced by later Israelite encounters with Esau's biologic and ideologic descendants.
- Patients who test positive for COVID-19 infection should be advised to hold their biologic dose until their infection clears.
- Catalent’s SMARTag® technology platform offers ADC and biologics developers a one-step toolkit to develop optimized ADCs and bioconjugates.
Synonyms of biologic
Forms of biologic
| plural | biologics |
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Origin of biologic
From biology + -ic.
Words formed from biologic
Words that rhyme with biologic
Questions about biologic
- What does biologic mean?
- Biologic means biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
- What is biologic in Tamil?
- Biologic in Tamil is உயிரியல்சார். See Biologic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is biologic?
- Biologic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce biologic?
- Biologic is pronounced /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/ (UK).
Words near biologic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: biologic (page history and authors); biologic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); જૈવિક (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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