Anagrams of: AVICENNIA_

• to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads

• the quality of being resistant to variation

• the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it

• a local infection induced in humans by inoculation with the virus causing cowpox in order to confer resistance to smallpox; normally lasts three weeks and leaves a pitted scar

• a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox

• (of experimental animals) raised under sterile conditions

• (used of cultures of microorganisms) completely free from other organisms

• A harem on the Indian subcontinent; a part of the house reserved for high-caste women; a system of segregating women into harems.

• An effeminate or crossdressing male in northern India or Pakistan. (Also spelled zanána.)

• immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

• someone who lives in a cave