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BIOSAFETY LEVEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("biosafety level" is a kind of...):
grade; level; tier (a relative position or degree of value in a graded group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biosafety level"):
biosafety level 1 (exposure only to infectious agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease)
biosafety level 2 (exposure to infectious agents that can cause disease in humans but whose potential for transmission is limited)
biosafety level 3 (exposure to infectious agents that can be transmitted by the respiratory route and which can cause serious infection)
biosafety level 4 (exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy)
