ADJECTIVE
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containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen
a polyvalent vaccine - having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher
How To Use polyvalent In A Sentence
- If we miss this point, we miss understanding the multidimensionality of Duchamp and the polyvalent nature of his work.
- These are no mere formalist exercises but polyvalent symbols of time, of chaos ordered, of life's sometimes painful cycles endured.
- Peptization is defined as dispersion achieved by changing the composition of the dispersion medium and frequently includes the addition of polyvalent co-ions.
- Scientists in the United States have created a polyvalent inhibitor of the toxin that protects rats for at least one week after they receive huge doses of anthrax toxin.
- Meskimmon fruitfully posits an embrace of language that is polyvalent, not univocal, and a network of communication operating in context rather than transhistorically.
- This meaning is not the only meaning, but polyvalent, historically conditioned and limited.
- I want members of my church to keep struggling with the polyvalent symbols of cross and flag.
- The strains were serotyped using polyvalent O1 and monospecific Inaba and Ogawa antisera.
- Covalently linking multiple copies of this peptide together on a flexible polyacrylamide backbone allowed them to construct from this a polyvalent inhibitor about 7500 times more potent than the original peptide.
- As part of the deal, French train maker Alstom chose MAN engines to run its new Coradia Polyvalent railcar with diesel-electric drive, which will be operated by France's SNCF from 2011 onwards. Business Watch