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biological defense

n. procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents [syn: biological defence, biodefense, biodefence]

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Biological defense

Biological defense may refer to:

  • Biological defense mechanism, a form of adaptation that promotes the survivability of an organism by protecting it from its natural enemies
  • In law, a claim that some biological factor present in the defendant provides a defense against the accused crimes, as in the so-called Twinkie defense
  • Biodefense, defense against biological warfare

Usage examples of "biological defense".

Mark Littleberry called his wife in Boston, and then set out by himself in another Bureau car to Bethesda, Maryland, to the National Naval Medical Research Institute, to pick up some extra biosensor equipment at the laboratories of the Navy's Biological Defense Research Program, which had been supplying Felixes and Boinks to the F.

As we study them, we may even learn the secret of their biological defense against Amplitur intrusion.