English

Verb

flox ‎(third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

1. (molecular biology) To sandwich a DNA sequence between two recombinase binding sequences such as "loxP"
   • 2003, Louis-Marie Houdebine, Animal Transgenesis and Cloning, ISBN 0470848286, page 93:

     In order to do this, the gene to knock out must first be floxed by homologous recombination.

   • 2007, Curt D. Sigmund & David E. Stec, “Genetic Manipulation of the Renin-Angiotensin System Using Cre-loxP-Recombinase”, in Donna H. Wang, editor, Angiotensin Protocols, ISBN 0896037630, page 62:

     Technically, the main problems encountered are in floxing the target gene.

See also

• Floxed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Blend of fluorine +‎ liquid oxygen

Noun

flox ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of FLOX

Verb

flox ‎(third-person singular simple present floxes, present participle floxing, simple past and past participle floxed)

1. (astronautics, dated) To add fluorine to liquid-oxygen rocket fuel
   • 1965, Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on the Space Sciences, page 94:

     It is to be tried in the so-called floxed Atlas, with the usual kerosene type fuel.

See also

• lox
• FLOX on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Noun

flox m ‎(invariable)

1. phlox