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Definition of Agglutinins
1. agglutinin [n] - See also: agglutinin
Medical Definition of Agglutinins
1. Substances, usually of biological origin, that cause cells or other organic particles to aggregate and stick to each other. They also include those antibodies which cause aggregation or agglutination of a particulate or insoluble antigen. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agglutinins
Literary usage of Agglutinins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... Affecting the Blood Corpuscles These include the iso-agglutinins and the ...
the same rules as the iso-agglutinins, so that we test only for the latter. ..."
2. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"Antedating and also accompanying the agglutinins. formation of the ... This phenomenon
is called agglutination, the substances which excite it, agglutinins. ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Normal serum contains agglutinins, -which act upon the most different kinds ...
These agglutinins are not specific. The serum of a patient or of an animal ..."
4. Immune Sera: Hæmolysins, Cytotoxins, and Precipitins by August von Wassermann, Charles Bolduan (1904)
"Nature of the agglutinins.—The agglutinins are fairly resistant substances which
... Corresponding to the specific combining power of these agglutinins, ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"agglutinins, namely normal agglutinins against guinea-pig's blood-corpuscles in
ox serum, as also typhoid-immune agglutinins of rabbit's serum, ..."
6. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"It should be remembered that agglutinins act on dead as well as on living ...
Role of agglutinins in Immunity.—The agglutinins were formerly regarded as ..."
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