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SPECTROMETRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of spectroscopes to analyze spectra
Synonyms:
spectrographic analysis; spectrometry; spectroscopic analysis; spectroscopy; spectrum analysis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("spectrometry" is a kind of...):
chemical analysis; qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spectrometry"):
mass spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles)
microwave spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopy to study atomic or molecular resonances in the microwave spectrum)
Derivation:
spectrometric (of or relating to or involving spectrometry)
Context examples:
In an approach known as metabolomics, the scientists used mass spectrometry to sort through hundreds of blood-based chemicals, called metabolites, produced during the body’s everyday activities.
(Study Points to Possible Blood Test For Memory Decline, Alzheimer’s, NIH)
A software package for the statistical validation of peptide identifications made by tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and database searching.
(PeptideProphet, NCI Thesaurus)
A mass spectrometry technique that uses inductively-coupled plasma generated from argon gas to atomize and ionize a sample.
(Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
A multi-organism, publicly accessible compendium of peptides identified in a large set of tandem mass spectrometry proteomics experiments.
(PeptideAtlas, NCI Thesaurus)
A radioconjugate composed of the platinum agent oxaliplatin labeled with the isotope carbon C 14, that can be used to predict the response to oxaliplatin therapy using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS).
(Carbon C 14 Oxaliplatin, NCI Thesaurus)
An analytical technique wherein high performance liquid chromatography is coupled to mass spectrometry in order to separate, identify, and quantify substances in a sample.
(High Performance Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
Several analytical techniques are utilized to quantify the metabolic content of specimens such as mass spectrometry and electrophoretic applications.
(Metabolomics, NCI Thesaurus)
Molecular Biology Shared Resource provides molecular biology services to the Cancer Center investigators including automated DNA sequencing, DNA and peptide synthesis, protein sequencing, amino acid analysis, BIAcore protein ligand assays, and mass spectrometry.
(Molecular Biology Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
Rapidly dividing cells, as in the case of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), can be labeled with deuterium oxide and measured using gas chromatography and/or mass spectrometry.
(Deuterium Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)
A mass spectrometry technique in which a solid sample is atomized and ionized by sputtering in low-pressure direct-current plasma prior to the separation and detection of the ions in a mass analyzer.
(Glow Discharge Mass Spectrometry, NCI Thesaurus)
