Definitions for Elisa

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Elisa E·lis·a

Spelling: [ih-lis-uh, e-lee-suh]

IPA: /ɪˈlɪs ə, ɛˈli sə/

Elisa is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Elisa (aeils).

Definitions for Elisa

noun

1. a female given name, form of Elizabeth.
2. Medicine/Medical. a sensitive diagnostic test for past or current exposure to an infectious agent, as the AIDS virus: a sample of blood is added to proteins from the agent, and any antibodies that combine with the proteins, indicating a history of infection, are detected by adding a test antibody linked to an enzyme that causes a color change.
3. Biology, Medicine/Medical. any similar test using proteins as a probe for the identification of antibodies or antigens.

Origin of Elisa

e(nzyme-)l(inked) i(mmuno)s(orbent) a(ssay)

Examples for Elisa

She abhorred Elisa at that moment, and started to scold her; she then begged her pardon.

"I suppose it is," said Elisa, with something of weariness in her tone.

“I need you to tell me our story,” Elisa says to her husband.

Elisa hides in her university office until she can piece together what she does for a living.

When Jep closes his eyes, he sees Elisa and himself, young and naïve and with their whole empty lives ahead of them.

"You are triste yet," said Elisa Puyrredon, drawing her chair nearer to Marcelino.

They found that he was already a suspect in the disappearance of another woman: Elisa Claps.

I could easily have bribed Elisa if I had wanted to; nothing was easier.

For my own part I never thought much of him since he refused to marry Elisa.

After 15 years as a powerful Hollywood agent, Elisa Hallerman trades it in for life as an addiction counselor.