Labile Definition
lābīl, -bəl
adjective
Liable to change; unstable.
Labile chemical compounds.
Webster's New World
Fluctuating widely.
Labile hypertension; labile emotions.
American Heritage Medicine
Decomposing readily.
The labile component of organic matter.
American Heritage Medicine
Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Wiktionary
(chemistry, of a compound or bond) Kinetically unstable; rapidly cleaved (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.
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Origin of Labile
Middle English labil forgetful, wandering from Old French labile from Late Latin lābilis apt to slip from lābī to slip
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Borrowing from Latin lābilis ("apt to slip, transient"), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).
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