Look up: attenuated

1. Attenuated
   == Category`s purpose and scope == This is a philatelic sub-category intended to hold micro references of all known postage stamp issuers in terms of the issues they have implemented. Issuers can be central organisations, such as the Post Office in Great Britain, which are appointed and regulated b...
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2. attenuated
   [adj] - (electronics) of an electrical signal
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3. Attenuated
   Attenuated: Weakened, diluted, thinned, reduced, weakened, diminished. The use of 'attenuated' in medicine is not new. In the 16th century, eating dried figs was claimed to attenuate the body fluids. Now 'attenuated' refers to procedures that weaken an agent of disease (a pathogen). An attenuated vi...
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4. attenuated
   strain with weakened or reduced virulence Category: Medicine • a vaccine produced using an attenuated strain of virus or bacterium Category: Medicine
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5. attenuated
   <microbiology, virology> To reduce the virulence (infectivity) of a pathogenic microorganism. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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6. Attenuated
   • (a.) Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. • (imp. & p. p.) of Attenuate • (a.) Made thin or slender.
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7. attenuated
   Weakened or thinned. Attenuated strains of disease-causing bacteria and viruses are often used as vaccines. The weakened strains are used as vaccines because they stimulate a protective immune response while causing no disease or only mild disease in the person receiving the vaccine.
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