anti-nuclearadj.
1. Opposed to nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
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1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1029/2 Switzerland who had forbidden an anti-nuclear conference to be held on her soil.
1971 Brit. Med. Bull. 27 (facing p. 94), Aggravation of turpentine-induced pleurisy in rats by ‘homogeneous’ and ‘speckled’ antinuclear antibodies.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. b3/5 More than 100 young protestors marched through central Phoenix yesterday to an anti-nuclear rally.
1992 Economist 29 Feb. 46/1 Mr. Brown stressed his anti-nuclear credentials to the state's many greens.
2. Biol. Designating or relating to antibodies to DNA, RNA, or any of various proteins associated with the nucleus.
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1958 Lancet 11 Jan. 87/1 Of 44 sera from rheumatoid arthritis cases, 8 contained the antinuclear factor.
1989 J. A. B. Collier & J. M. Longmore Oxf. Handbk. Clin. Specialties (ed. 2) iii. 282 Find the cause: do ASO titre, antinuclear factor, syphilis serology, blood cultures, virology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2011).
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