Definition of Precipitins

1. Noun. (plural of precipitin) ¹

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Definition of Precipitins

1. precipitin [n] - See also: precipitin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Precipitins

precipitately
precipitateness
precipitates
precipitating
precipitating(a)
precipitation
precipitations
precipitative
precipitato
precipitator
precipitators
precipitin
precipitin test
precipitinogen
precipitinogens
precipitins (current term)
precipitious
precipitous
precipitously
precipitousness
precis
precise
precised
precisely
precisely unless
preciseness
precisenesses
preciser
precises
precisest

Literary usage of Precipitins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"precipitins like agglutinins act more quickly at the body temperature and require the ... The relation of precipitins to immunity is not entirely clear. ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"precipitins like agglutinins act more quickly at the body temperature and ... It is quite evident that the presence of precipitins in the blood must have ..."

3. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"Bacterial precipitins are by no means the only kind that may be produced by ... A particularly important development of the study of the precipitins has ..."

4. Epidemiology and public health: a text and reference book for physicians by Victor Clarence Vaughan (1922)
"precipitins.—In 1897 Kraus discovered that the blood serum of an animal which had been repeatedly treated with a given bacterium forms a precipitate when ..."

5. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"precipitins are formed not only for bacterial albumins, but for most any soluble animal ... The precipitins are specific antibodies that develop in the ..."

6. Immunity ; methods of diagnosis and therapy and their practical application by Julius Bernhard Citron, Abraham Leon Garbat (1912)
"precipitins. In the former chapter, the phenomenon of agglutination was explained as a clumping of bacteria occurring when a serum is mixed with its ..."

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