RADIOACTIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radioactively mean? 

• RADIOACTIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb RADIOACTIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in a radioactive manner

  Familiarity information: RADIOACTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIOACTIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a radioactive manner

Context example:

radioactively labeled

Pertainym:

radioactive (exhibiting or caused by radioactivity)

 Context examples 

A technique that uses X-ray film to visualize gross anatomical structures that have been radioactively labeled.

(Autoradiography, Gross, NCI Thesaurus)

A piece of DNA that has been labeled, usually radioactively or with a fluorescent dye, which is used in hybridization studies.

(DNA Probes, NCI Thesaurus)

A technique used to locate radioactively labeled molecules, or fragments of molecules, by recording on a photographic or sensor plate the radiation emitted by radioactive material within a molecule.

(Autoradiography, NCI Thesaurus)