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biotherapeutics

biotherapeutics noun: the field encompassing therapeutic materials produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology. Also the plural of biotherapeutic.

Noun

biotherapeutics (plural biotherapeutics)

  1. The field encompassing therapeutic materials produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology.
    • “We want to become a leader in biotherapeutics and vaccines,” Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer’s chief executive, said Monday at the Manhattan news conference where the deal was announced.2009 January 27, Natasha Singer, “In Wyeth, Pfizer Sees a Drug Pipeline”, in New York Times

Also used as

biotherapeutics is also the plural of biotherapeutic.

Forms of biotherapeutics

pluralbiotherapeutics

Origin of biotherapeutics

From bio- + therapeutics.

Questions about biotherapeutics

What does biotherapeutics mean?
Biotherapeutics means the field encompassing therapeutic materials produced using biological means, including recombinant DNA technology.
What part of speech is biotherapeutics?
Biotherapeutics is a noun.
What is the plural of biotherapeutics?
The plural of biotherapeutics is biotherapeutics.

Words near biotherapeutics in the dictionary

  1. biotests
  2. biotheological
  3. biotheology
  4. biotherapeutic
  5. biotherapeutical
  6. biotherapeutics
  7. biotherapic
  8. biotherapies
  9. biotherapist
  10. biotherapists
  11. biotherapy

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