inagglutinableadj.
Incapable of being agglutinated (by).
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inagglutinable1919
1919 Lancet 4 Oct. 607/2 This inagglutinable strain was isolated from a case a few weeks before..experiments commenced.
1934 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 64 34 Every individual whose corpuscles were inagglutinable by the A and B sera.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xii. 203 It [sc. the Vi antigen] is not affected when the organisms are killed with 75 per cent alcohol, although they may then become inagglutinable by a Vi antiserum.
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ˌinagglutinaˈbility n. the property of being inagglutinable.
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agglutinability1897
inagglutinability1925
1925 C. H. Browning Bacteriol. viii. 169 Occasionally typhoid bacilli when they have been recently obtained from the living body are not susceptible to agglutination by antiserum, but such inagglutinability usually soon disappears.
1948 Biol. Abstr. 22 897 Inagglutinability of red cells occurs.
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