immunophenotype

English

Etymology

immuno- +‎ phenotype

Noun

immunophenotype (plural immunophenotypes)

1. (genetics) The immunological and genetic characteristics of an organism.

Related terms

• immunophenotyping

Verb

immunophenotype (third-person singular simple present immunophenotypes, present participle immunophenotyping, simple past and past participle immunophenotyped)

1. (transitive, biochemistry) To perform immunophenotyping on an organism.
   • 2013 April 30, Elisa Einwallner, Almira Subasic, Andrea Strasser, Dorothea Augustin, Renate Thalhammer, Irene Steiner, Ilse Schwarzinger, “Lysis matters: Red cell lysis with FACS Lyse affects the flow cytometric enumeration of circulating leukemic blasts”, in Journal of Immunological Methods, volume 390, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 127:

     In our laboratory immunophenotyping of acute leukemias is routinely performed from bone marrow mononuclear cell (MNC) preparations. In cases with insufficient marrow material peripheral blasts are immunophenotyped using the whole blood lysis method.