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patch clamps

patch clamps is the plural of patch clamp.

Meaning of patch clamp

Noun

patch clamp (plural patch clamps)

  1. A device used to measure the ion currents in individual living cells.
    • We have shown that the extracellular patch clamp can be reliably used to detect extremely small currents flowing through biological membranes.1978 July, Erwin Neher, Bert Sakmann, Joe Henry Steinbach, “The Extracellular Patch Clamp: A Method for Resolving Currents through Individual Open Channels in Biological Membranes”, in Pflügers...

Questions about patch clamps

What is patch clamps the plural of?
Patch clamps is the plural of patch clamp.

Words near patch clamps in the dictionary

  1. patch bay
  2. patch bays
  3. patch box
  4. patch boxes
  5. patch clamp
  6. patch clamps
  7. patch file
  8. patch files
  9. patch ice
  10. patch over
  11. patch panel

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