释义 |
bacteriolysin|bæktɪərɪˈɒlɪsɪn, bækˌtɪərɪəʊˈlaɪsɪn| Also erron. -ine. [Formed as next + -in1.] A substance formed in the body during an infectious disease which has the property of destroying the specific bacterium of the disease.
1900tr. P. Ehrlich Immunity in Proc. R. Soc. LXVI. 441 The specific bacteriolysines, which dissolve the bacteria. 1908R. T. Hewlett Bacteriology (ed. 3) 157 The protection afforded by the anti-serum is therefore due to the destruction of the microbes by solution, the process being known as bacteriolysis, and the bodies which bring it about being termed bacteriolysins. 1949H. W. Florey Antibiotics I. i. 48 He [sc. I. Schiller] suggested that the bacteriolysins against tubercle bacilli..might be used therapeutically. |