bioactivity

[ bahy-oh-ak-tiv-i-tee ]

noun

1. any effect on, interaction with, or response from living tissue.

Other Words From

• bio·active adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bioactivity¹

First recorded in 1970–75; bio- + activity

Example Sentences

This customization may involve adjusting composition, structure, or properties to match specific patient requirements, like size, shape, or bioactivity enhancement.

From Science Daily

Zhen takes ejiao himself occasionally for “better color” and “more energy,” although he says scientists “still don’t know the bioactivity of the product.”

From Science Magazine

“We have the scaffold for bioactivity, now can we push for better profiles?”

From Nature

Higginbotham, now at Queen's University Belfast, and her colleagues published a paper in confirming bioactivity in some of their fungal strains against the parasites that cause malaria and Chagas' disease, a breast cancer cell line and several types of harmful bacteria.

From Scientific American

As students isolate and characterize endophytic microbes, evaluate their bioactivity, and examine their chemical diversity, they gain new technical skills that translate into broader research abilities.

From Science Magazine