filtrable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- filtrability noun
Example Sentences
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Bacteriophage is almost as elusive as filtrable viruses; it can scarcely be seen under a high-powered microscope, and must be cultured on a special nitrogen compound called asparagine.
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She had Encephalitis Lethargica, probably caused by a filtrable virus, a type of sleeping sickness for which medicine knows no sure cure.
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He was "bitten by some filtrable virus and turned into a reformer."
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How do filtrable viruses get through the respiratory system to cause diseases like measles?
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If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength.
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