BIOSAFETY LEVEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does biosafety level mean? 

• BIOSAFETY LEVEL (noun)
  The noun BIOSAFETY LEVEL has 1 sense:

1. the level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities

  Familiarity information: BIOSAFETY LEVEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIOSAFETY LEVEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("biosafety level" is a kind of...):

grade; level; tier (a relative position or degree of value in a graded group)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "biosafety level"):

biosafety level 1 (exposure only to infectious agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease)

biosafety level 2 (exposure to infectious agents that can cause disease in humans but whose potential for transmission is limited)

biosafety level 3 (exposure to infectious agents that can be transmitted by the respiratory route and which can cause serious infection)

biosafety level 4 (exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy)