attenuated
weakened: My father had a somewhat attenuated relationship with his own family, as his childhood was quite traumatic.
thin; slender or fine: Images of the conjoined twins’ brains reveal an attenuated line stretching between the two organs, called a thalamic bridge.
Bacteriology, Immunology. (of a strain of disease-causing virus or bacterium) rendered less virulent: The attenuated poliovirus in the Sabin vaccine replicates very efficiently in the gut, but less so in the nervous system.
Electronics. (of an electronic signal) reduced in amplitude: Accuracy decreases in the case of reflected or attenuated signals—for example, inside buildings.
the simple past tense and past participle of attenuate.
Origin of attenuated
1Other words from attenuated
- sub·at·ten·u·at·ed, adjective
- un·at·ten·u·at·ed, adjective
- un·at·ten·u·at·ed·ly, adverb
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How to use attenuated in a sentence
However, it’s difficult to produce live-attenuated vaccines for more complicated pathogens, like bacteria and fungi.
It could become more deadly or it could attenuate and disappear, like the common cold.
The Man Who Saw the Pandemic Coming - Issue 94: Evolving | Kevin Berger | December 30, 2020 | NautilusLive attenuated vaccines for measles and others have traditionally always been the most powerful and effective vaccines, also in their ability to protect you for the long term, which is a very important factor.
‘We’re racing against the clock’: The CEO of the Serum Institute of India on his company’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign | Erika Fry | September 21, 2020 | FortuneThat means that it’s the virus which has been attenuated, which means the harmful properties have been removed, but it’s the whole virus.
‘We’re racing against the clock’: The CEO of the Serum Institute of India on his company’s COVID-19 vaccine campaign | Erika Fry | September 21, 2020 | FortuneAn attenuated virus can still be dangerous for people with compromised immune systems.
Synthetic biologists have created a slow-growing version of the coronavirus to give as a vaccine | David Rotman | September 16, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
We live in an era of shortened attention spans and attenuated half-lives for products, companies, and business models.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Finally Out After a 13-Year Reign | Daniel Gross | August 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHis cropped leather jackets with their dolman sleeves were perfectly proportioned over his attenuated, back-slit skirts.
Paris Fall 2012 Fashion Week: Are Designers Bashing Women? | Robin Givhan | March 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSuch of the sound waves is pass through the second nick will become attenuated in charging the chamber B.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerBeneath those robes must have been a body as attenuated as a skeleton, as different as an insect's from man's.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellDr. Henry Brodrick was a tall, attenuated John, with a slightly, ever so slightly receding chin.
The Creators | May SinclairSahib, what could my attenuated and wasted frame do against men who had suffered no misery like mine?
Confessions of a Thug | Philip Meadows TaylorHarvey glanced rather contemptuously at the lean, attenuated arm that the other displayed, where he had rolled his cuffs back.
The Rival Campers Afloat | Ruel Perley Smith
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