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Definition of Opsonin
1. Noun. An antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes.
Definition of Opsonin
1. Noun. Any antibody that causes an invading species to be more susceptible to phagocytosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opsonin
1. an antibody of blood serum [n -S]
Medical Definition of Opsonin
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Opsonin
Literary usage of Opsonin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The opsonin of immune serum acts in a distinctly different manner from the opsonin of
... While the normal opsonin is of the nature of the complement, ..."
2. Surgical After-treatment by Le Roi Goddard Crandon, Albert Ehrenfried (1912)
"opsonin AND PHAGOCYTOSIS There is, however, beyond these distinctly antibacterial
... The opsonin so affects the bacteria by combination with their cell ..."
3. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"actual difference in the nature of normal and immune opsonin, but this view has
now been almost entirely abandoned. In the discussion of this change of view ..."
4. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"To this they gave the name of " opsonin " (vide pp. 123). There is no phagocytosis
of cocci by leucocytes washed in salt solution ; normal serum heated to ..."
5. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"actual difference in the nature of normal and immune opsonin, but this view has
now been almost entirely abandoned. In the discussion of this change of view ..."
6. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"Muir and Martin believe from their experiments that the thermo-labile opsonin of
normal serum and the thermo-stable opsonin are two entirely distinct ..."
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