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heat-labile

heat-labile is the alternative form of heat labile.

Meaning of heat labile

Adjective

heat labile (comparative more heat labile, superlative most heat labile)

  1. Not heat stable; that breaks down at high temperatures.
    • The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144

Forms of heat-labile

comparativemore heat-labile
superlativemost heat-labile

Questions about heat-labile

What is heat-labile the alternative form of?
Heat-labile is the alternative form of heat labile.

Words near heat-labile in the dictionary

  1. heat up
  2. heat vision
  3. heat wave
  4. heat waves
  5. heat-and-eat
  6. heat-labile
  7. heat-proof
  8. heat-ray
  9. heat-rays
  10. heat-resistant
  11. heat-seal

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