Where does “radioimmunochemistry” come from?
radioimmunochemistry (English) comes from English radio, from English radiotelegraphy, from English telegraphy, from English Telegraph, from French télégraphe, from French télé-, from Ancient Greek τῆλε, from Latin commūnicāre — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
radioimmunochemistry (English): immunochemistry using radiolabelled antibodies
Definitions
- immunochemistry using radiolabelled antibodies
Ancestry of “radioimmunochemistry”, step by step
radioimmunochemistry traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English radio
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | radio | The technology that allows for the transmission... |
| 2 | English | radiotelegraphy | The process and techniques of sending telegrams... |
| 3 | English | telegraphy | communication at a distance by means of the... |
| 4 | English | Telegraph | any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a symbolic code |
| 5 | French | télégraphe | telegraph |
| 6 | French | télé- | tele- |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τῆλε | far off, afar, far away |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicāre | — |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English immunochemistry
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | immunochemistry | The study of the structure of antibody molecules (immunoglobulins) and of their ability to bind with antigens of diverse chemical structure |
| 2 | English | chemistry | The branch of natural science that deals with the... |
| 3 | English | chemist | A person who specializes in the science of... |
| 4 | French | chimiste | chemist |
| 5 | French | chimie | chemistry |
| 6 | Latin | chimia | Alternative form of chēmia |
| 7 | Latin | alchemia | alchemy |
| 8 | Arabic | كيمياء | chemistry |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | χυμείᾱ | art of alloying metals, alchemy |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χύμα | that which is poured out or flows, fluid; ingot,... |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | -μᾰ | "suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an... |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -mn̥ | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs |