attenuated

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-- Thus attenuated, the military law is still rigid enough: nevertheless it remains endurable.

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  1. Thin; slender: as, long attenuated fingers: attenuated parchment.
  2. Thin in consistency; diluted; rarefied: as, “attenuated small beer,” Lamb, Elia.

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  • Department of Cellular Immunology, Division of Malaria Vaccine Development, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America Immunization with radiation (γ) - attenuated Plasmodia sporozoites (γ-spz) confers sterile and long-lasting immunity against malaria liver-stage infection. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Prime-boost immunizations with radiation-attenuated (γ) Plasmodia sporozoites (γ-spz) constitutes the most effective method for inducing long-lived, sterile protection against the pre-erythrocytic stages (sporozoite and liver) of both rodent and human malaria —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Hoffman SL, Goh LM, Luke TC, Schneider I, Le TP, et al. (2002) Protection of humans against malaria by immunization with radiation-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum sporozoites. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • What I've been hearing from Republicans in both the House and Senate has been a kind of attenuated, distorted echo of the economic doctrine that the party has preached, if not always practiced, since the Reagan years. —  Madville Times
  • He argues that literally every major New Deal Program "substantially attenuated or threatened private property rights" (here is the list) —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
 

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