Liable to slip, err, fall, or apostatize.
Apt or likely to change.
Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding and labile.
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.
Borrowed from Latin lābilis (“apt to slip, transient”), from lābor, lābī (“slip; glide, flow”).
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