Trivalent

Word TRIVALENT
Character 9
Hyphenation triv a lent
Pronunciations /traɪˈveɪlənt/

Definitions and meanings of "Trivalent"

What do we mean by trivalent?

Having valence 3. adjective

Having three sites of attachment. Used of an antibody or antigen. adjective

Containing antigens from three strains of a microorganism or virus. Used of a vaccine or serum. adjective

In chem., equivalent in combining or displacing power to three monad atoms; triadic: applied to an element or a radical. Also triatomic.

Having a valence of three; capable of being combined with, substituted for, or compared with, three atoms of hydrogen; -- said of triad atoms or radicals; thus, nitrogen is trivalent in ammonia. adjective

Having a valence of 3 adjective

Any trivalent chromosome. noun

Having a valence of three adjective

Any trivalent chromosome

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The word "trivalent" in example sentences

A review of 31 studies published over four decades found that the most widely used seasonal flu vaccine, known as trivalent inactivated vaccine, was only 59 per cent effective in healthy adults. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It will be decided later whether vaccine-makers put them all in one shot, a so-called trivalent dose, or split them up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to the Health Protection Agency, the vast majority of those who died had not had this season's "trivalent" vaccine, which protects against three strains of flu. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Influenza vaccines are trivalent, meaning they contain three different strains. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The other strains are H3N2 - which like H1N1 is a type of influenza A - and influenza B. Fukuda said national health regulatory authorities would have to decide whether to combine the three strains into a single "trivalent" shot, administer three separate vaccines, or use a separate H1N1 shot and combine the other two in one shot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What the EPA does do, Parsons reports, is limit the total chromium in drinking water, "the combined amount of hexavalent chromium and trivalent chromium." ❋ The Media Consortium (2010)

I performed a study with Dr. Harry Preuss and colleagues using trivalent chromium in the form of niacin-bound chromium NBC. ❋ M.D. Nicholas Perricone (2010)

She explains, The problem is that trivalent chromium is actually good for you--in fact, it's necessary for metabolism. ❋ The Media Consortium (2010)

The federal government restricts the amount of "total chromium" in drinking water and requires water utilities to test for it, but that includes both trivalent chromium, a mineral that humans need to metabolize glucose, and hexavalent chromium, the metal that has caused cancer in laboratory animals. ❋ Lyndsey Layton (2010)

Bi is a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A trivalent carbon atom and a divalent hydrogen atom: who changed the rules without warning me? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such results can be related to the formation of meiotic trivalent in the hybrids leading to the production of viable aneuploid gametes and post-zygotic elimination of embryos due to chromosomal non disjunction events at meiosis. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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