CELL-FREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cell-free mean? 

• CELL-FREE (adjective)
  The adjective CELL-FREE has 1 sense:

1. lacking cells

  Familiarity information: CELL-FREE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELL-FREE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking cells

Context example:

a cell-free homogenate of the thyroid

Similar:

acellular; noncellular (not made up of or divided into cells)

 Context examples 

A cell-free mixture comprised of a variety of naturally-derived cytokines obtained from normal, unrelated donor lymphocytes with potential immunostimulatory activity.

(IRX-2, NCI Thesaurus)

The detection of cell-free, neoplasm-derived DNA in patient serum or plasma.

(Circulating Tumor-Derived DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

The cell-free system is therefore widely used in cell biology.

(Cell-free System, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A research team tested next-generation sequencing to assess whether cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) from DLBCL could be detected in blood serum and used to monitor the disease.

(Tumor DNA in Blood Reveals Lymphoma Progression, NIH)