Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

x-irradiate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.94 in modern English

Syllables: x-ir-ra-di-ate
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To irradiate with X-rays.

Example Sentences

"In this connection it would be of interest to X-irradiate portions of whole blood labeled with C¹⁴ or N¹⁵ in the hemoglobin molecule."
"If you X-irradiate animals on the 6th postnatal day and then every two days to 14 or 16 postnatal days, then it can be shown histologically that you differentially eliminate the cells which are dividing at the different stages."
"Some people even use that as a method, but with higher doses: they X-irradiate the nuclei then fuse them, but for that you need selective markers."

Inflected Forms

X-irradiates (present, singular) X-irradiating (participle, present) X-irradiated (participle, past) X-irradiated (past)

Questions

What does x-irradiate mean?: To irradiate with X-rays.

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