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COMPLEMENT FIXATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does complement fixation mean?
• COMPLEMENT FIXATION (noun)
The noun COMPLEMENT FIXATION has 1 sense:
1. an immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination)
Familiarity information: COMPLEMENT FIXATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("complement fixation" is a kind of...):
immune reaction; immune response; immunologic response (a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen)
Context examples
In complement fixation tests, the smallest amount of antigen that will fix one unit of complement.
(Antigen Unit, NCI Thesaurus)
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