electrophoresis

English

Etymology

From electro- +‎ -phoresis.

Pronunciation

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Noun

electrophoresis (countable and uncountable, plural electrophoreses)

1. (electricity) The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field.
2. (analytical chemistry, biochemistry) The separation and analysis of large molecules (such as proteins) by migrating a colloidal solution of them through a gel; gel electrophoresis.

Derived terms

• coelectrophoresis
• counter-electrophoresis
• immunoelectrophoresis
• isoelectrophoresis
• microelectrophoresis
• minielectrophoresis
• nanoelectrophoresis

Related terms

• electrophoretic
• electrophoretise / electrophoretize

Translations

method for separation of large molecules

• Catalan: electroforesi f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電泳 / 电泳 (zh) (diànyǒng)

• Czech: elektroforéza f
• French: électrophorèse (fr)
• Galician: electroforese (gl) f
• Greek: ηλεκτροφόρηση (el) f (ilektrofórisi)
• Hindi: वैद्युतकणसंचलन (vaidyutkaṇsañcalan)
• Italian: elettroforesi (it) f
• Japanese: 電気泳動 (でんきえいどう, denkieidō)
• Kazakh: электрофорез (élektroforez)
• Korean: 전기영동(電氣泳動) (jeon'giyeongdong)
• Lithuanian: elektroferezė (lt) f
• Portuguese: eletroforese f
• Russian: электрофоре́з (ru) m (elektroforéz)
• Spanish: electroforesis (es) f
• Turkish: elektroforez (tr)
• Vietnamese: điện di