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Definition of Bivalence
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bivalence
1. A combining power (valence) of 2. Synonym: divalence, divalency. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bivalence
Literary usage of Bivalence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"... 40, 3059) the only compound in which the bivalence of ... of its molecular
weight by the cryoscopic method in acetophenone confirms the bivalence of ..."
2. The Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science (1892)
"Each mapped base is computed to bivalence, and is arranged according to the heat
... M = the metal computed to bivalence. cannot be large, but it is found ..."
3. The Spermatogenesis of Anasa Tristis by Frederick Clark Paulmier (1899)
"This doubling of the spindle fibers is possibly correlated with the bivalence of
the chromosomes and serves as an additional proof of the bivalence of the ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"A more exact proof of its bivalence was shown by the determination of the molecular
weight of the chlorid by the boiling-point method, pyridin being used as ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1881)
"The fact, which has been alleged as a proof of the bivalence of beryllium, namely,
that the chloride fuses and sublimes at ..."
6. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Both the acute biological effects and chronic state of desensitization appear to
require antibody bivalence (59). Monovalent antibody fragments bind to the ..."
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