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AVIANIZE
avianize, avianise
(verb) to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
avianize (third-person singular simple present avianizes, present participle avianizing, simple past and past participle avianized)
(medicine) To attenuate (something such as a virus, for example for use in a vaccine) by repeatedly culturing it in bird embryos.
(rare) To make avian; to make bird-like or into a bird.
Source: Wiktionary
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POLYGENIC
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
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