FLOX

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of "flanked by loxP"

Verb

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

(molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"

Etymology 2

Noun

flox (uncountable)

Alternative letter-case form of FLOX

Verb

flox (third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

(astronautics, transitive, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel

Anagrams

• folx

Noun

FLOX (uncountable)

(medicine) Acronym of fluorouracil, leucovorin and oxaliplatin: a chemotherapy regimen against colon cancer.

Anagrams

• folx

Source: Wiktionary



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FOCUS

(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; “in focus”; “out of focus”


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