Medical Definition of Alexin
1. An obsolete term for the bactericidal substances of cell-free serum, the activity of which is destroyed by heating at 56°C; applied by Bordet to the heat-labile substance normally present in serum and distinct from the sensitizing substance (antibody) produced by infection or immunization. In this sense it is synonymous with complement. Origin: G. Alexo, to ward off (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alexin
Literary usage of Alexin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"The complement or alexin. lso-antibodies. Discussion of views of Ehrlich ...
alexin in iedema fluids, etc. The question of alexin in the circulating blood. ..."
2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The author's studies embraced : (1) Quantitative determination of alexin. (2)
Comparison of the alexin contents of clotted blood and plasma. ..."
3. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"It is certainly not the corpuscle itself, for we find that normal unsensitized
corpuscles do not take up alexin. Is it, then, the sensitizer, ..."
4. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"CONCERNING alexin ACTION.1 By Dr. HAMS SACHS, Assistant at the Institute. ...
Recent investigations, however, have shown that Buchner's alexin is not a ..."
5. Müller's Serodiagnostic Methods: Authorized Translation from the Third by Paul Theodor Müller (1913)
"The amount of the patient's serum required to bring about haemolysis affords an
approximate measure of the complement (alexin) content of the serum. ..."
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