Definition of Filterable

1. Adjective. Able to be separated by filtration ¹

2. Adjective. That can pass through a specified filter ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Filterable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Filterable

1. Capable of passing a filter; frequently applied to smaller viruses and some bacteria. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filterable

filter down
filter fabric
filter feeder
filter feeders
filter funnel
filter funnels
filter lane
filter lanes
filter out
filter paper
filter sterilisation
filter tip
filter up
filterabilities
filterability
filterable (current term)
filterbank
filterbanks
filtered
filtered down
filtered out
filtered up
filterer
filterers
filtergram
filtergrams
filtering
filtering cicatrix
filtering down
filtering operation

Literary usage of Filterable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Potential Groundwater Contamination from Intentional and Nonintentional by Robert Pitt, Shirley Clark, Keith Parmer (1994)
"TREATMENT OF STORMWATER Table 3 summarizes the filterable fraction of ... Pollutants that are mostly in filterable forms have a greater potential of ..."

2. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1916)
"filterable VIRUSES, DISEASES OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY. filterable VIRUSES. ... filterable VIRUSES.1 THE viruses of certain diseases of plants, animals and of man ..."

3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"CHAPTER XXXII THE filterable VIRUSES IT was first shown by Loffler and Frosch* that there are microorganisms pathogenic for man so small or so plastic as to ..."

4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"THE filterable VIRUSES The first disease of which the virus was found to be capable of passing through the finest porcelain filter was that of foot and ..."

5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"THE filterable VIRUSES The first disease of which the virus was found to be capable of passing through the finest porcelain filter was that of foot and ..."

6. The Diagnostics and treatment of tropical diseases by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1917)
"SECTION III DISEASES DUE TO filterable VIRUSES CHAPTER XIV YELLOW FEVER DEFINITION AND SYNONYMS Definition.—Yellow fever is an important epidemic disease of ..."

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