transitive. To treat (plant fibre) so as to confer on it some of the properties of animal fibre and thereby improve its receptivity to dyes. Now rare.

Biology. To render (organs) sterile.

a medium or membrane used for ultrafiltration; also as v. transitive, to subject to ultrafiltration.

Biology. To deprive (a cell) of its nucleus.

To prepare a suspension of cell fragments and cell constituents from (tissue) by physical treatment in a liquid medium.

To remove (cells) from a culture made in vitro or in vivo; to remove (cells, tissues, organs, or embryos) from an animal for experimental purposes.

transitive. Physiology. To perform superfusion (superfusion, n.1 2) upon (tissue); to employ (liquid) in superfusion. Also (of a liquid): to flow…

(transitive) to subject to bursectomy.

transitive. To subject (an organ or tissue) to an enveloping flow of liquid, usually buffered saline.

transitive. Chiefly Biology and Medicine. To ventilate (in various senses); (in later use) esp. to administer artificial respiration to. Also: to…

(transitive) to infect (a cell) with free viral nucleic acid.