The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. A procedure that measures minute amounts of a substance, such as a hormone or drug, by quantitating the binding, or the inhibition of binding, of a radiolabeled substance to an antibody.
n. A procedure that uses the binding of a radioactively labeled substance to an antibody in order to analyze minute amounts of biological compounds
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n. immunoassay of a substance that has been radioactively labeled
Word Usage
"She and a younger colleague, Solomon Berson, developed methods for the radioimmunoassay -- an analytic tool that allows investigators to survey minute quantities of hormones, viruses, and chemicals in human beings."