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  • noun medicine biological products, such as antitoxins or vaccines, used to induce immunity

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  • During the past decade a new class of drugs, the so-called biologicals, fulfilling the DMARD definition and considered revolutionary for RA treatment has emerged.

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  • The drugs are known as biologicals because they're made from living material and they typically affect the body's disease-fighting immune system.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • The new drugs are known as biologicals because they're made from living material and often work by triggering the body's disease-fighting immune response.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here 2008

  • The drugs are known as biologicals because they're made from living material and they typically affect the body's disease-fighting immune system.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • There has been very little testing, officials said, of "biologicals" ��� namely, the airborne mold that appears to be causing much of the problem.

    Eric Schmeltzer: ���Katrina Cough��� Begins to Spread in New Orleans 2008

  • There were precious few "biologicals," the sounds made by sea life, here, for the Tuloma was dead, and in the process of poisoning the sea for scores of miles beyond the mouth of the inlet.

    Countdown Douglass, Keith 1994

  • There were standing orders not to report "biologicals" unless specifically ordered otherwise.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • The Pugwash Scientists, so generously helped by Mr. Cyrus Eaton of the United States22, have shown this year that poison gas and "biologicals" may well become weapons for the mass elimination of human life.

    Philip Noel-Baker - Nobel Lecture 1959

  • I think it's fair to say that we're doing a lot of work on applications such as biologicals in particular.

    Waters CEO Discusses Q4 2010 Earnings Call Transcript - Seeking Alpha 2011

  • Development of technologies to genetically tag and/or lock synthesized molecules would provide methods for identifying the origin and source of synthetic biologicals (e.g., genes or proteins) allowing for traceability and prevention of manipulation (“tamper proof” synthetic biological).

    Follow Up: DARPA brief page 265– not exactly genetic zombies. « Third Point of Singularity 2010

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