pneumotropic
pneumotropic adjective: having an affinity for (or moving towards) the tissues of the lungs.
Adjective
pneumotropic (comparative more pneumotropic, superlative most pneumotropic)
- Having an affinity for (or moving towards) the tissues of the lungs
- Therefore, the apical infection of differentiated primary human bronchial epithelial cells with the pneumotropic and virulent type HAdV-B14p1 was investigated in comparison to the less pneumotropic HAdV-C5 as a control.2015 July 14, “Effective Apical Infection of Differentiated Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells and Induction of Proinflammatory Chemokines by the Highly Pneumotropic Human Adenovirus Type 14p1”, in...
Forms of pneumotropic
| comparative | more pneumotropic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pneumotropic |
Origin of pneumotropic
From pneumo- + -tropic.
Words that rhyme with pneumotropic
- topic
- microscopic
- polytropic
- telescopic
- tropic
- catascopic
- megascopic
- monotropic
- myopic
- tonotopic
- allotopic
- diascopic
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- dystropic
- ectopic
- fibroscopic
- gonadotropic
- macroscopic
- microendoscopic
- monoscopic
- polytopic
- proctoscopic
- rhinoscopic
- thermoscopic
- thermotropic
- acroscopic
- adrenocorticotropic
- aerotropic
- Afrotropic
- allotropic
- amblyopic
- ametropic
- anascopic
- anoscopic
- anthropic
- antigonadotropic
- antitropic
- antroscopic
- apocopic
- arthroscopic
- arthrotropic
- asthenopic
- astroscopic
- atopic
- auriscopic
- autoscopic
- autostereoscopic
- baroscopic
- barotropic
- basiscopic
- bathmotropic
- bioscopic
- bronchoscopic
- brontoscopic
- chemotropic
- chromatophorotropic
- chromoendoscopic
- chromotropic
- chronoscopic
- chronotopic
- chronotropic
Questions about pneumotropic
- What does pneumotropic mean?
- Pneumotropic means having an affinity for (or moving towards) the tissues of the lungs.
- What part of speech is pneumotropic?
- Pneumotropic is an adjective.
Words near pneumotropic in the dictionary
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