anti-serumantiserumn.
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a. A contraction of antitoxic serum (see antitoxic adj.).
b. A serum containing a high level of antibodies, esp. one that can be used in the treatment of disease.
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1901 Nuttall in Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 3/7 No other bloods excepting those of monkeys give a reaction to the anti~serum for human blood.
1910 Encycl. Brit. III. 176/2 So far as bacterial immunity is concerned, the anti-serum exerts its action either on the toxin or on the bacterium itself; that is, its action is either antitoxic or anti-bacterial.
1948 Endeavour VII. 49 The assumption that most antibody molecules have two regions able to combine with antigen..accounts for some of the properties of antisera.
1966 New Scientist 2 June 587/2 Blood serum obtained from the treated animal is known as the antiserum and the antibodies in it will combine specifically with the virus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2011).
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