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adoptively

adoptively

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To give protection against disease by transferring immune cells from one person to another
  • adverb
  • /əˈdɒptɪvli/
  • Specialized
: por adopción
  • During the trial, participants received adoptively transferred immune cells to help fight off the disease.
  • adoptively transferred

Examples

  • In the study, cells were adoptively transferred to enhance the immune response against the virus.

  • For experiments where cells were sorted for transcriptome or chromatin accessibility analyses at day 3 following immunization, 5x10^5 cells were adoptively transferred.

    Academic text (2017)

  • These cells were then adoptively transferred via i.p. injection to vagotomized animals 3 hours prior to E. coli inoculation, and resolution indices were calculated.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The researchers found that when lymphocytes were adoptively transferred, the recipients showed a stronger resistance to infection.

Surface Forms

adoptively positive

Morphology

adoptively = adoptive (semi-transparent) = adopt + ive + ly

The step from 'adoptive' to 'adoptively' is a regular adverbial formation, but the biomedical sense of the adjective is a specialized extension that may not be predictable to general learners.

Etymology

Adoptively comes from ad- ('to') and opt ('choose'), so the core idea is 'take as your own'. In medicine, 'adoptively' describes taking immune cells from one person and giving them to another, which is why the word fits this transfer.