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intrabody

intrabody adjective: that exists, operates or occurs within a body (especially the human body).

Adjective

intrabody (not comparable)

  1. That exists, operates or occurs within a body (especially the human body).
    • An intuitive context aware service between two devices is possible using touch with the intrabody communication.2006, Rebecca Grinter, et al. (editors), CHI 2006: Interact, Inform, Inspire: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings, Volume 1, Association for Computing Machinery, page 677
    • In the measurements of the transmission characteristics of the intrabody communication system RF transformers with terminals that are not symmetric to the ground are often used for galvanic decoupling and referred to as balun transformers.2015, Željka Lučev Vasić, Igor Krois, Silvio Hrabar, Mario Cifrek, “On the Transformer Effects in the Measurements of Capacitative Intrabody Transmission Characteristics Using Grounded Instruments”...
  2. That exists, operates or occurs within the vertebral body.

Noun

intrabody (plural intrabodies)

  1. An antibody that exists inside and operates within a cell.
    • The T cells could now produce their own anti-Tat intrabody.1998, Discover, Volume 19, Time Inc., page 36
    • Single chain antibodies, intrabodies, were engineered that can be stably expressed in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells […] .2006, HIV Molecular Immunology, Volume 2, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group T-10), page 902

Forms of intrabody

pluralintrabodies

Origin of intrabody

From intra- + body.

Blend of intracellular + antibody, probably influenced by the above.

Questions about intrabody

What does intrabody mean?
Intrabody means that exists, operates or occurs within a body (especially the human body).
What part of speech is intrabody?
Intrabody can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near intrabody in the dictionary

  1. intrablastocoelar
  2. intrablastocoelic
  3. intrabloc
  4. intrablock
  5. intrabodies
  6. intrabody
  7. intrabolus
  8. intrabone
  9. intrabony
  10. intrabrachial
  11. intrabrain

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