Employing the principle or producing the effect of isolation: specifically applied in philology to monosyllabic languages in which each word is a simple, uninflected root.
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adj. relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
Word Usage
"Both workers succeeded in isolating from the urine of pregnant women a substance in crystalline form having oestrogenic effects."