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