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▪ I. idiotype etc.: see idio-. ▪ II. idiotype, n.|ˈɪdɪəʊtaɪp| [f. idio- + -type 1.] †1. Chem. (Formerly at idio-.) An idiotypic substance. Obs.
1861F. Guthrie in Q. Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XIII. 35 The terms isotype and idiotype, isotypic and idiotypic may be advantageously adopted to denote bodies which belong to similar types, or to the same one, and the relations which such bodies bear to one another... A body is idiotypic with all its replacement derivatives; the latter are, of course, idiotypic with one another; the whole are idiotypes. 1865Watts Dict. Chem. III. 242 Idiotype, a term applied by Guthrie..to bodies derived by replacement from the same substance, including the typical substance itself. 2. Genetics. [ad. G. Idiotypus (1917 in H. W. Siemens Biol. Grundlagen der Rassenhygiene 31).] The set of all hereditary determinants of an individual, including both chromosomal and extrachromosomal components; also, formerly, = genotype n.2
1924L. F. Barker tr. Siemens' Race Hygiene & Heredity v. 57 This ‘constitutional formula’, the sum of the inheritance rudiments that make up the peculiar innermost nature of the individual we name his inheritance pattern (idiotype or genotype). 1935Dorland & Miller Med. Dict. (ed. 17) 657/2 Idiotype, same as genotype. 1967Biologisches Zentralblatt LXXXVI. 596 The phenotype is the result of an interaction of the idiotype with the environment. 3. Immunol. The set of idiotopes that characterizes the variable region of a particular antibody molecule.
1960[see *idiotope n.]. 1967Progress in Allergy XI. 178 These specificities characteristic of antibodies and presumably determined or co-determined with the antibody combining site itself, have been called..‘idiotypes’. 1972Jrnl. Immunol. CIX. 176/1 There is a family of BALB/c plasmacytoma proteins which share an idiotype, bind phosphorylcholine with indistinguishable affinities and are very similar in their primary structure. 1989New Eng. Jrnl. Med. CCCXXI. 855/2 Several antibodies cross-reacted with idiotypes bearing either kappa or lambda immunoglobulin light chains. |