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| antiserum |
a serum containing antibodies to be injected in humans or other animals in order to immunize them against one or more diseases. |
| antitoxin |
a serum containing such antibodies, used to inoculate people or animals against such a poison. [1/2 definitions] |
| blood blister |
a blister that contains blood and sometimes also serum. (Cf. water blister.) |
| complement |
a heat-sensitive substance in normal blood serum and plasma that, in combination with antibodies, destroys antigens. [1/7 definitions] |
| dropsy |
an abnormal medical condition characterized by the building up of watery fluid such as lymph or serum in body tissues or cavities. |
| gamma globulin |
a protein in blood serum that contains antibodies used in the prevention of a number of infectious diseases, such as measles and hepatitis. |
| hydrocephalus |
a condition, esp. in children, in which an abnormal amount of serum accumulates in the brain's ventricles, causing the skull to enlarge and the brain to compress. |
| isoagglutination |
the clumping of red blood cells of a person or animal when transfused with the blood serum of another member of the same species. |
| polyvalent |
of an immune serum, containing more than one antibody, each of which reacts to or with an antigen or microorganism. [1/2 definitions] |
| scopolamine |
a thick alkaloid syrup used as a sedative or truth serum, or to dilate the pupil of the eye. |
| sera |
a plural form of serum. |
| serology |
the scientific study of the characteristics and effects of blood serum. |
| serous |
like, pertaining to, containing, or producing serum; thin and watery. |
| serous fluid |
any of various bodily fluids resembling blood serum. |
| serum globulin |
a protein component of blood serum chiefly containing antibodies. |
| Wassermann test |
a diagnostic test for syphilis that detects the presence of syphilitic antibodies in the blood serum. |
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