ANTIGENIC DETERMINANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antigenic determinant mean? 

• ANTIGENIC DETERMINANT (noun)
  The noun ANTIGENIC DETERMINANT has 1 sense:

1. the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself

  Familiarity information: ANTIGENIC DETERMINANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTIGENIC DETERMINANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

antigenic determinant; determinant; epitope

Hypernyms ("antigenic determinant" is a kind of...):

site; situation (physical position in relation to the surroundings)

Domain category:

immunology (the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system)

Holonyms ("antigenic determinant" is a part of...):

antigen (any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies))

 Context examples 

The Id represents the unique antigenic determinants in the variable regions of the clonal Ig.

(Idiotype-Pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccine APC8020, NCI Thesaurus)

The simplest form of an antigenic determinant, on a complex antigenic molecule, which can combine with antibody or T cell receptor.

(Epitope, NCI Thesaurus)

An antibody directed against the individual antigenic determinants (idiotopes) on the variable region of an immunoglobulin molecule.

(Anti-Idiotype Antibody, NCI Thesaurus)