assay

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A notable feature of this assay is the speed and ease of reagent additions.

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  1. noun Qualitative or quantitative analysis of a metal or ore to determine its components.
  2. noun A substance to be so analyzed.
  3. noun The result of such an analysis.
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  • A notable feature of this assay is the speed and ease of reagent additions. —  GEN News Highlights
  • "This assay is among the most sensitive, non-invasive colorectal cancer screening tools available to supplement screening between recommended colonoscopy intervals." —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • The Company's proprietary diagnostic solution is based on a genetic expression assay, GES ™, a protocol designed to function on a highly automated Fluorogenic PCR platform. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • "The Abbott RealTime HPV assay is a major advance that provides clinicians with three results in one assay: detection of the 14 HPV high risk types as well as genotyping to determine if the highest risk HPV 16 and 18 genotypes are present in the sample," said Jack Cuzick, Ph. D., professor of epidemiology, Barts and the London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Another cell-based assay is the CAP-e assay, which uses red blood cells with an added precursor dye inside the cell's cytosol that only becomes a dye if it is damaged by oxidative stress. —  NutraIngredients-USA RSS
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assay:   assays ·  assaying ·  assayed
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  1. Middle English, from Old French essai, assai; see essay.

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  1. from Middle English assay, assai, asaye, asaie (and by apheresis say), from Old French assai, assay = Provencal assai, assag = Catalan assatg = Spanish asayo = Italian assaggio, saggio; also, with variation of the same prefix, Old French essai (later English essay, q. v.) = Provencal essai = Catalan ensatg = Spanish ensayo = Portuguese ensaio (Middle Latin reflex assagium, assaia, essagium, essayum), from Late Latin exagium, a weighing (cf. exāmen (for *exagmen), a weighing, examination), from *exagere, exigere, weigh, try, prove, measure, examine: see examen, examine, and exigent, and cf. the doublet essay. For the prefix, see as, es, ex-.
  2. from Middle English assayen, asayen, asaien (later also by apheresis saye, say), from Old French assayer, asaier = Provencal assaiar, assatjar = Spanish asayar = Italian assaggiare; also, with variation of the same prefix, Old French essayer (later English essay, q. v.) = Provencal essaiar, ensaiar = Catalan ensajar = Spanish ensayar = Portuguese ensaiar; from the noun.
 

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