heat labile

English

Alternative forms

• heat-labile, heatlabile

Adjective

heat labile (comparative more heat labile, superlative most heat labile)

1. Not heat stable; that breaks down at high temperatures.
   • 1969, Robert P. Orange, K. Frank Austen, “Slow Reacting Substance of Anaphylaxis”, in Advances in Immunology - Volume 10, page 144:

     The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-A^monkey from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody.

   • 2006, Nikolaos G. Stofors, Petros S. Taoukis, “Heat Processing: Temperature-Time Combinations”, in Yiu H. Hui, editor, Handbook of Food Science, Technology, and Engineering - Volume 3, pages 109-2:

     The extent of thermal destruction of a heat labile substance during thermal processing is a function of the sensitivity (or the “thermal resistance”) of the particular substance to the various temperatures at which it is exposed and the time that the substance remains at each one of these temperatures during the process.

   • 2008, B S Nagoba, Immunology, page 79:

     It is a heat labile component destroyed at 56° C in 30 minutes.