Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

microisolator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-croiso-la-tor
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of animal cage with a filter to keep out microorganisms, used in scientific research.

Example Sentences

"Age-matched IFN-γ-deficient (IFN-γ -/- ) mice on a C57BL/6 background [23 ] were bred at the Laboratory for Experimental Biomedicine (EBM), University of Gothenburg, and all mice were housed in microisolators for the duration of the study."

Etymology

From micro- + isolator.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: micro

Inflected Forms

microisolators (plural)

Questions

What does microisolator mean?: A kind of animal cage with a filter to keep out microorganisms, used in scientific research.
Where does microisolator come from?: From micro- + isolator.

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