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filtertop

filtertop noun: the top section of an animal cage, such as a microisolator, that incorporates a filter.

Noun

filtertop (plural filtertops)

  1. The top section of an animal cage, such as a microisolator, that incorporates a filter.
    • To avoid further problems, animals were housed in shoebox cages with filtertops in a laminar-flow cabinet within an isolation cubicle. All caging, feed, water, and bedding were autoclaved before use.1983, Laboratory Animal Science, page 502

Forms of filtertop

pluralfiltertops

Origin of filtertop

From filter + top.

Questions about filtertop

What does filtertop mean?
Filtertop means the top section of an animal cage, such as a microisolator, that incorporates a filter.
What part of speech is filtertop?
Filtertop is a noun.
What is the plural of filtertop?
The plural of filtertop is filtertops.

Words near filtertop in the dictionary

  1. filters down
  2. filters out
  3. filters up
  4. filterset
  5. filtersets
  6. filtertop
  7. filtertops
  8. filterware
  9. filterwheel
  10. filterwheels
  11. filth

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