Where does “fluoroimmunoprecipitation” come from?
fluoroimmunoprecipitation (English) comes from English immunoprecipitation, from English immunoprecipitate, from English precipitate, from Latin praecipitatus, from Latin praecipitō, from Latin praeceps, from Latin -ceps, from Old Latin -cipes — to seize, hold.
fluoroimmunoprecipitation (English): A laboratory technique in which fluorescently labeled antibodies are used to bind and isolate a specific antigen (usually a protein) from a mixture, allowing its capture and subsequent detection or analysis
Definitions
- A laboratory technique in which fluorescently labeled antibodies are used to bind and isolate a specific antigen (usually a protein) from a mixture, allowing its capture and subsequent detection or analysis
Ancestry of “fluoroimmunoprecipitation”, step by step
fluoroimmunoprecipitation traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English immunoprecipitation
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immunoprecipitation | A technique in which an antigen is precipitated... |
| 2 | English | immunoprecipitate | A protein precipitated during... |
| 3 | English | precipitate | To make something happen suddenly and quickly; To... |
| 4 | Latin | praecipitatus | cast down; thrown headlong |
| 5 | Latin | praecipitō | to cast down; to throw headlong |
| 6 | Latin | praeceps | head first, headlong; steep, precipitous; hasty,... |
| 7 | Latin | -ceps | -headed; -fold; -catcher |
| 8 | Old Latin | -cipes | "third declension"; Alternative form of -ceps;... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -kaputis | -headed |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kaput | head |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | káput | head |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kap- | to seize, hold |
via English fluoro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | fluoro | A fluorescent light; Of a fluorescent colour |
| 2 | English | -o | A colloquializing suffix; A type of person; Can... |
| 3 | English | O | A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may... |
| 4 | Middle English | O | — |
| 5 | Old English | o | ever, always |
| 6 | Latin | o | The name of the letter "O"; o!; oh! |
| 7 | Etruscan | 𐌏 | — |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | ο | Lower-case omicron (ὂ μικρόν), the 15th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the close-mid back rounded vowel. It is preceded by ξ and followed by π |
| 9 | Phoenician | 𐤏 | ayin; ʿayin |
| 10 | Egyptian | 𓁹 | — |