Word Finder - labile

definition

Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.

definition

Apt or likely to change.

synonyms

• unstable

definition

(of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed).

example

Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome.

definition

(of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form.

He was noted to be tearful and emotionally labile during the assessment.

An intensely yellow acid salt is described, as is also a very unstable colourless salt which could not be examined further owing to its very labile nature.

This is readily intelligible on the supposition that the toxophorous group is more labile than the haptophorous.

Since electron ionization is a gas phase technique, it may not be suitable for involatile or thermally labile compounds.

As with most enveloped viruses, the particle is relatively labile.

Glucose is a labile (affected by heat) substance; therefore, plasma or serum must be separated from the blood cells and refrigerated as soon as possible.

Thomsen deduces the actual values of X, Y, Z to be 14.71, 13.27 and zero; the last value he considers to be in agreement with the labile equilibrium of acetylenic compounds.

Blagden (Ber.,1900,33,p.2544), who consider that three simultaneous reactions occur, namely, the formation of labile double salts which decompose in such a fashion that the radical attached to the copper atom wanders to the aromatic nucleus; a catalytic action, in which nitrogen is eliminated and the acid radical attaches itself to the aromatic nucleus; and finally, the formation of azo compounds.

On the contrary the labile opsonins of normal serum have a comparatively general action on different organisms. It is quite evident that the specific immune-opsonins may play a very important part in the phenomena of immunity, as by their means the organisms are taken up more actively by the phagocytic cells, and thereafter may undergo rapid disintegration.