EX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ex mean? 

• EX (noun)
  The noun EX has 3 senses:

1. a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband

2. a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife

3. the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet

  Familiarity information: EX used as a noun is uncommon.

• EX (adjective)
  The adjective EX has 1 sense:

1. out of fashion

  Familiarity information: EX used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who was formerly a certain woman's husband

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ex; ex-husband

Hypernyms ("ex" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A woman who was formerly a particular man's wife

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ex; ex-wife

Context example:

all his exes live in Texas

Hypernyms ("ex" is a kind of...):

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The 24th letter of the Roman alphabet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

ex; X

Hypernyms ("ex" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Holonyms ("ex" is a member of...):

Latin alphabet; Roman alphabet (the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe)

• EX (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Out of fashion

Synonyms:

antique; demode; ex; old-fashioned; old-hat; outmoded; passe; passee

Context example:

outmoded ideas

Similar:

unfashionable; unstylish (not in accord with or not following current fashion)

 Context examples 

Allogeneic human autologous HSCs are isolated and transduced ex vivo with three different anti-HIV genes.

(Gene-Modified HIV-Protected Hematopoietic Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

A dendritic cell (DC) vaccine containing ex vivo expanded autologous DCs obtained from a patient with leukemia with potential immunostimulating activity.

(Host Dendritic Cell Vaccine-001 MSSM/BIIR, NCI Thesaurus)

T cells directed against HER2, overexpressed on many tumor cells, are collected from HER2-expressing tumor tissue, expanded ex vivo and, then re-introduced in the patient.

(Ex Vivo-Expanded HER2-Specific T Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous breast cancer cells are transduced ex vivo with an adenovirus vector encoding the GM-CSF gene and irradiated and then reintroduced into the patient.

(Autologous GM-CSF-Secreting Breast Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Ex vivo, the lymphocytes are activated against EBV-specific antigens and then returned to the patient, where they mount a specific immune response against EBV-positive tumor cells.

(Autologous Epstein-Barr Virus-Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous glioma cells treated ex vivo with an 18-mer antisense oligodeoxynucleotide of insulin-like growth factor receptor 1 (IGF-1R/AS ODN), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(IGF-1R Antisense Oligodeoxynucleotide-treated Autologous Glioma Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Merbarone interferes with DNA replication via binding directly to topoisomerase II at a domain that maybe shared by other topoisomerase II cleavage-enhancing agents, ex., etoposide.

(Merbarone, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, DTPA is used in radioimaing procedures when complexes with radioisotopes, ex., Tc 99m or In 111.

(Pentetic Acid, NCI Thesaurus)

It may recur after excision or transform to a malignant neoplasm (carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma).

(Pleomorphic Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon isolation, transduction, expansion ex vivo, and reintroduction into the patient, the NY-ESO-1 reactive TCR-transduced autologous PBLs bind to NY-ESO-1-overexpressing tumor cells.

(NY-ESO-1 Reactive TCR Retroviral Vector Transduced Autologous PBL, NCI Thesaurus)