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TRIVALENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a valence of three

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Pertainym:

valence ((chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent))

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 Context examples: 

The scientists state that the addition of the Lassa virus component to their multivalent vaccine is an exciting research advance as they already had developed an investigational trivalent vaccine that provided protection against Ebola, Sudan and Marburg viruses.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

An intravenous colloidal solution containing trivalent iron (Fe3+) chelated to isomaltosides, used as iron replacement.

(Iron Isomaltoside 1000, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with GM2 lactone/GD2 lactone/GD3 lactone-KLH conjugate trivalent vaccine may elicit antibodies against tumor cells expressing any of these epitopes, resulting in an antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) against tumor cells expressing these gangliosides.

(GM2/GD2/GD3 Lactone-KLH Conjugate Trivalent Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)