bioassay

1. 1.

   appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard

   Synonymsbio-assay

   Broaderassay

   Narrowerimmunoassaypregnancy test

1. 1.

   subject to a bio-assay

   Broaderassay

Other forms of bioassay

plural

bioassays·

past tense

bioassayed·

present participle

bioassaying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bioassay

What does bioassay mean?

bioassay means "appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bioassay?

bioassay has 4 syllables: bi-o-as-say. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for bioassay?

Close synonyms include bio-assay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bioassay a common word?

bioassay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.