SINCE 1828
avianize
transitive verb
avi·an·ize
variants:
or British
avianise
\ˈā-vē-ə-ˌnīz
\
\
avianized
or British avianised;
avianizing
or British avianising
Medical Definition of avianize
: to modify or attenuate (as a virus) by repeated culture in a developing chick embryo
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