IMMUNOCHEMICAL ASSAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunochemical assay mean? 

• IMMUNOCHEMICAL ASSAY (noun)
  The noun IMMUNOCHEMICAL ASSAY has 1 sense:

1. identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen

  Familiarity information: IMMUNOCHEMICAL ASSAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNOCHEMICAL ASSAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

immunoassay; immunochemical assay

Context example:

PSA in the blood can be measured with an immunochemical assay

Hypernyms ("immunochemical assay" is a kind of...):

bio-assay; bioassay (appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunochemical assay"):

radioimmunoassay (immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled)