filtrable

[ fil-truh-buhl ]

adjective

1. filterable.

Other Words From

• filtra·bili·ty noun

Example Sentences

Bacteriophage is almost as elusive as filtrable viruses; it can scarcely be seen under a high-powered microscope, and must be cultured on a special nitrogen compound called asparagine.

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She had Encephalitis Lethargica, probably caused by a filtrable virus, a type of sleeping sickness for which medicine knows no sure cure.

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He was "bitten by some filtrable virus and turned into a reformer."

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How do filtrable viruses get through the respiratory system to cause diseases like measles?

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If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength.

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