ATTENUATION
\ɐtˌɛnjuːˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɐtˌɛnjuːˈeɪʃən], \ɐ_t_ˌɛ_n_j_uː_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of ATTENUATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
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The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
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The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
By Oddity Software
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The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.
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The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases.
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The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Dilution, thinning. 2. Diminution of virulence in an organism, obtained through heating, cultivation on certain media, and other ways. 3. In homeopathy, dynamization.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Thinness, emaciation. A term used by the homoeopathists, in the sense of dilution or division of remedies into infinitesimal doses.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The state of being lean, or the process of losing flesh.
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In bacteriology, the process of weakening the virulence of pathogenic bacteria by various artificial methods, such as cultivation at an increased temperature, prolonged cultivation, drying, and by the addition of various chemicals. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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