| immobilise | To render fixed or incapable of moving. Origin: L. In-neg. + mobilis, movable (05 Mar 2000) |
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| immobilised cell bioreactors | Bioreactors in which the cells grown are immobilised onto some sort of support material. (14 Nov 1997) |
| immobilised cell biosensor | Biosensors that use living cells as an essential part of their detector system. The immobilised cell does the sensing and produces a very weak signal of some sort, which is detected and amplified into a signal the user can read. (14 Nov 1997) |
| immobilised enzyme | <biochemistry> An enzyme attached to a solid support over which substrate is passed and is converted into product. (09 Oct 1997) |