Exobiotic

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Meaning

From outside of an organism or from the substrate..

Definitions by Sense

1. From outside of an organism or from the substrate.
2. Of or pertaining to exobiology.
3. (medicine) An exobiotic substance, especially one that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process.

Example Sentences

Work historically performed by toxicologists has provided an impressive list of endogenous and exobiotic compounds termed peroxisome proliferators (PP) which were so named for their ability following chronic high dose administration to rodents, to increase the number and activities of an essential intracellular organelle termed the peroxisome.

Little is known about the clinical safety of exobiotic polymers.

Due to soil types and other exobiotic factors (e.g^([sic]) water supply and temperature) many microenvironments may be present, leading to the need for polysaccharides adapted to these conditions.

In any case, OXLs from C^α-trisubstituted residues were extensively employed for the preparation of enantiomerically α-amino acid derivatives and C^α-tetrasubstituted α-amino acids (in the latter experiments, also in the context of investigations in the prebiotic and exobiotic fields).

For example, terran contamination could result in the introduction of exobiotic organisms, the initiation of chemical reactions or changes, or the mutation of either 12 indigenous or exogenous organisms.

Around me were computer databases filled with records of innumerable galaxies, exobiotic life forms and extraterrestrial cultures.

Lake Vostok may represent the closest analog to the subglacial environments that existed during the Neoproterozoic Era on Earth or exobiotic environments on Mars or Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter.

Some kind of exobiotic plague had run through the animal stock seven months back, and half of them had died.

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