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biosafe

biosafe adjective: not causing harm to biological organisms.

Adjective

biosafe (not comparable)

  1. Not causing harm to biological organisms.
    • Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).2011, Sam Zhang, Biological and Biomedical Coatings Handbook: Applications, page 343

Origin of biosafe

From bio- + safe.

Questions about biosafe

What does biosafe mean?
Biosafe means not causing harm to biological organisms.
What part of speech is biosafe?
Biosafe is an adjective.

Words near biosafe in the dictionary

  1. biorthogonalizations
  2. biorthogonalize
  3. biorthonormal
  4. biorthonormality
  5. bios
  6. biosafe
  7. biosafety
  8. biosample
  9. biosampled
  10. biosamples
  11. biosampling

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