Attenuated

(thing) by BioTech Thu Nov 11 2004 at 1:10:45

This term is used to describe a vaccine that contains live but weakened viruses that will cause the body to develop an active immunity to them but will not normally cause disease.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:57:37

At*ten"u*ate (#), At*ten"u*a`ted (#), a. [L. attenuatus, p. p.]

1.

Made thin or slender.

2.

Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.

Bacon.

 

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