Definition of Inactivating

1. Verb. (present participle of inactivate) ¹

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Definition of Inactivating

1. inactivate [v] - See also: inactivate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inactivating

inaccuracies
inaccuracy
inaccurate
inaccurately
inaccurateness
inacquaintance
inacquiescent
inaction
inactions
inactivate
inactivated
inactivated polio vaccine
inactivated poliovirus vaccine
inactivated serum
inactivates
inactivating (current term)
inactivation
inactivations
inactivator
inactivators
inactive
inactive mutant
inactive repressor
inactive tuberculosis
inactively
inactiveness
inactivities
inactivity
inactose
inactuate

Literary usage of Inactivating

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

1. Human Infection Carriers: Their Significance, Recognition and Management by Charles Edmund Simon (1919)
"... in poliomyelitis, as will appear from the following considerations: The inactivating Power of the Nasal Secretion upon the Virus of Poliomyelitis. ..."

2. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"bear slight warming, in order to remain capable of reacting, we had to abandon our custom of inactivating sera by simply heating them to 60° C. Thereafter ..."

3. Molecular Neurobiology: Proceedings of the 2nd NIMH Conference by Steven Zalcman (1995)
"In particular, the simple kinetic discrimination of macroscopic N-type (inactivating) from L-type (non- inactivating) current is not well supported by ..."

4. Risk Assessment for Neurobehavioral Toxicity edited by Bernard Weiss, Jurg Elsner (1997)
"This function would be expected to result from a mechanism in which the probability of inactivating damage to a vitally important organelle was a simple ..."

5. Veterinary state board questions and answers by Victor Gage Kimball (1920)
"By inactivating the serum, the power of haemolysis is lost, because the complement is destroyed; but this power can be restored by adding fresh serum which ..."

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