avianizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

avianize (三人称単数 現在形 avianizes, 現在分詞 avianizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 avianized)

1. (medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
   • 1994, Encyclopedia of Virology, volume 3, page 1267:

     In Japan a lapinized/avianized vaccine was developed which was used extensively to control the disease in Asia. [.].. The Onderstepoort strain was attenuated by growth in avian cells [...]

2. (まれに) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
   • 1922, Edward Winslow Gifford, Californian Kinship Terminologies, page 408:

     […] In the third stratum dances the spirits impersonated in the kuksuyu and kilaki, which elsewhere are regarded as anthropomorphic deity and dragon respectively, are by the Central and some Northern Miwok identified with birds, the kuksuyu with a shore bird, the kilaki with a hawk. This is perhaps a manifestation of the tendency to avianize even the new dances of the third or Ghost-Dance stratum.

参考

• lapinize