Avianize

Quick meaning: Avianize is a verb meaning (medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.

Meaning

(medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.

More Meanings

1. (rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.

Example Sentences

In Japan a lapinized/avianized vaccine was developed which was used extensively to control the disease in Asia. [.].. The Onderstepoort strain was attenuated by growth in avian cells [...]

[…] In the third stratum dances the spirits impersonated in the kuksuyu and kilaki, which elsewhere are regarded as anthropomorphic deity and dragon respectively, are by the Central and some Northern Miwok identified with birds, the kuksuyu with a shore bird, the kilaki with a hawk. This is perhaps a manifestation of the tendency to avianize even the new dances of the third or Ghost-Dance stratum.

Word Forms

• avianizes
• avianizing
• avianized

Synonyms for avianize

Depending on context, synonyms include avianise.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include avianise, inocubate, innoculate, inocculate, inoculate, revaccinate.

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