ELUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elute mean? 

• ELUTE (verb)
  The verb ELUTE has 1 sense:

1. wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography

  Familiarity information: ELUTE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they elute    ... he / she / it elutes   
Past simple: eluted   
Past participle: eluted   
-ing form: eluting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "elute" is one way to...):

rinse; wash (clean with some chemical process)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

elution (the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions)

 Context examples 

Nitrilotriacetic acid is mainly used as a chelating and eluting agent and is found in laundry detergents.

(Nitrilotriacetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

In transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), irinotecan-eluting beads are administered into blood vessels that feed the tumor, occluding tumor blood vessels and inducing ischemic tumor necrosis while simultaneously delivering high-dose chemotherapy locally.

(Irinotecan-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)

Simultaneously, idarubicin-eluting beads release cytotoxic idarubicin locally and in a sustained manner.

(Idarubicin-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)

During transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), doxorubicin-eluting beads embolize to the tumor vasculature and release cytotoxic doxorubicin, which may result in both ischemic necrosis of tumor tissue due to mechanical blockage of the tumor vasculature and doxorubicin-mediated inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.

(Doxorubicin-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)

During transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the hepatic artery, idarubicin-eluting beads embolize to the tumor vasculature, occlude tumor blood vessels and induce ischemic necrosis of tumor tissue due to mechanical blockage of the tumor vasculature.

(Idarubicin-Eluting Beads, NCI Thesaurus)