the treatment of disease by the injection of serum containing antibodies to the disease
serotherapy in American English
(ˌsɪərouˈθerəpi)
noun
Medicine
therapy by means of injections of a serum obtained esp. from an immune animal
Derived forms
serotherapist
noun
Word origin
[1890–95; sero- + therapy]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cholesterol, neoclassicism, phoneme, plein-air, pogey
Examples of 'serotherapy' in a sentence
serotherapy
All patients had pre-existing viral infections and received chemotherapy conditioning without serotherapy.
Hong Zhan, Kimberly Gilmour, Lucas Chan, Farzin Farzaneh, Anne Marie McNicol, Jin-HuaXu, Stuart Adams, Boris Fehse, Paul Veys, Adrian Thrasher, Hubert Gaspar, Waseem Qasim 2013, 'Production and first-in-man use of T cells engineered to express a HSVTK-CD34 sort-suicidegene.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3804528?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
After serotherapy, 64% of the patients left the hospital within less than 24 hours.
Rejâne Maria Lira-da-Silva, Graciela Brige Matos, Roney Orismar Sampaio, Tania BrazilNunes 1995, 'Estudo retrospectivo de latrodectismo na Bahia, Brasil', Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropicalhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821995000300007. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)