Meaning

(uncountable) The absence of life..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The absence of life.
2. The temporary cessation of biological processes.
3. Necrosis, especially that which occurs at the single cell level.

Example Sentences

In fact, more than just the total elimination of bacteria by filtration, the aim should also be stabilization by abiosis (page 119), with the implication of reducing the contaminating cell load as much as possible.

At times, every professor believes that his classroom represents the abnegation of intelligence, if not absolute abiosis.

PRIMARY SUCCESSION: In the present work, the long-term changes accompanying the gradual development of ecosystems in some geographical region, starting from a condition of abiosis.

The rapid onset of Japanese industrialization in the absence of environmental safeguards led to eutrophication, anoxia and frequent abiosis of urban and peri-urban waters.

The symptoms of intoxication may differ in both cases considerably, e.g. they may be attended by deep unconsciousness and abiosis, and also by violent convulsions.

Briefly draws attention to deviations from reciprocity and to the partial reversibility of many radiation induced phenomena, to the possible use of organisms in a state of abiosis as integral dose-indicators, to certain specially radiosensitive organisms and responses, and to questions of threshold.

The animals of the first group were left in a state of an abiosis at a temperature of + 4 ° after irradiation.

Besides α-taxonomy, which started, albeit with a certain delay, soon after the first discovery of tardigrades and which continues unabatedly, tardigrade research was dominated almost from the beginning by two topics, i.e. (1) anabiosis or abiosis or, the more modern term, cryptobiosis and here especially anhydrobiosis (the ability many tardigrades share with other organisms such as the metazoan taxa rotifers and nematodes, in which this phenomenon was detected earlier than in tardigrades) and (2) possible relationships to other organims;

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• abioses

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