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Definition of ELISA

1. Noun. An assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria).

Medical Definition of ELISA

1. The enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay is serologic test used as a general screening tool for the detection of antibodies to the HIV virus. Reported as positive or negative. Since false positive tests due occur (for example recent flu shot), positives will require further evaluation using the western blot. ELISA technology links an a measurable enzyme to either an antigen or antibody. In this way, it can then measure the presence of an antibody or an antigen in the bloodstream. Acronym: ELISA (27 Sep 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of ELISA

Literary usage of ELISA

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

1. The Court of Napoleon: Or, Society Under the First Empire; with Portraits of by Frank Boott Goodrich (1858)
"MARIANNA-ELISA-BONAPARTE, the eldest of Napoleon's sisters, was born at Ajaccio, in the year 1777. She received a better education than either Pauline or ..."

2. Lancashire Parish Register Society: Publications by Lancashire Parish Register Society (1908)
"14 March Elisa: Singleton fa. Edm: Singleton of Lane: „ ,, Francis Croser fil: John of ... 152a Elisa: Lindell fa. John of Lancaster ... i August Jane ..."

3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"SECT. IX. Of the four sons of Javan; and of the double signification of Tharsis, either for a proper name or for the sea. OF Elisa, or ..."

4. History of the Northwest Coast by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak (1886)
"... Quimper, Elisa, Malaspina, Caamano, and Galiano. Should the strait be found, then Spain had an equal chance with England to occupy the necessary points; ..."

5. Eliza Cook's journal by Eliza Cook (1850)
"Elisa declared she could, and to prove the truth of her assertion, she sat down at the tahle, and composed and wrote the tale within an hour. ..."

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