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| labile | |
| 1. adj. Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize. |  |
| 2. adj. Apt or likely to change. | |
| 3. adj. (chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (and possibly reformed). | |
| Certain drugs can be conjugated to polymer molecules with a linkage that is labile at low pH to effect controlled release in a cellular endosome. | |
| Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution. | |
| 4. adj. (linguistics, of a verb) Able to change valency without changing its form; especially, able to be used both transitively and intransitively without changing its form. | |
