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ELISA(health)
ELISA(dictionary)
Locanda l'Elisa(tourism)
IgM antibody capture ELISA(medicine)
Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)(health)
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)(health)

trigram (iou) and elisa (medicine)


trigram (iou)



trigram noun. E17.
[from TRI- + -GRAM. Cf. DIGRAM, MONOGRAM.]
A group of three letters, a trigraph; Psychology a (nonsense) word of three letters used in the study of learning or memory. E17.
A three-stroke figure or character; spec. each of eight figures composed of three whole or broken parallel lines, occurring with sixty-four hexagrams in the ancient Chinese text I Ching, and traditionally used for divination. E17.
Geometry etc. A set of three lines; spec. the figure formed by three straight lines in one plane not intersecting in the same point. Also more generally, any figure composed of three elements. E17.
trigra'mmatic adjective (rare) of, pertaining to, or of the Nature of a trigram E19.

elisa (medicine)


ELISA -->
enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay
<investigation> The enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay is serologic test used as a General screening tool for the detection of antibodies to the HIV virus. Reported as positive or negative. Since false positive tests due occur (for example recent flu shot), positives will require further evaluation using the western blot. ELISA technology links an a measurable enzyme to either an antigen or antibody. In this way, it can then measure the presence of an antibody or an antigen in the bloodstream.

Acronym: ELISA