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HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heterophile antibody mean? 

HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY (noun)
  The noun HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY has 1 sense:

1. an antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosisplay

  Familiarity information: HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

Forssman antibody; heterophil antibody; heterophile antibody

Hypernyms ("heterophile antibody" is a kind of...):

antibody (any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response)


 Context examples 


A measurement of the heterophile antibodies in a biological specimen.

(Heterophile Antibody Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The determination of the amount of heterophile antibodies present in a sample.

(Heterophile Antibody Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)



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