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biosafety

/baɪ.ɑˈseɪf.tiː/

biosafety noun: protection from potential harm from biological agents, such as infectious microbes or modified genes.

Noun

biosafety (uncountable)

  1. Protection from potential harm from biological agents, such as infectious microbes or modified genes.
    • “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety...2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    biosecurity

Synonyms of biosafety

Origin of biosafety

From bio- + safety.

Questions about biosafety

What does biosafety mean?
Biosafety means protection from potential harm from biological agents, such as infectious microbes or modified genes.
What part of speech is biosafety?
Biosafety is a noun.
How do you pronounce biosafety?
Biosafety is pronounced /baɪ.ɑˈseɪf.tiː/.

Words near biosafety in the dictionary

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

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