Associations to the word «Bioassay»

Wiktionary

BIOASSAY, noun. The analysis of the biological activity of a substance, with reference to a standard preparation, using a culture of living cells, or a living creature

Dictionary definition

BIOASSAY, noun. Appraisal of the biological activity of a substance by testing its effect on an organism and comparing the result with some agreed standard.
BIOASSAY, verb. Subject to a bio-assay.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope