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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Y-shaped protein on the surface of B cells that is secreted into the blood or lymph in response to an antigenic stimulus, such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or transplanted organ, and that neutralizes the antigen by binding specifically to it; an immunoglobulin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A body or substance which inhibits the action of another substance. Also called
antisubstance and, as a general term, adaptation-product. Seeadaptation-product andimmunity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med., Physiol. Chem.) Any of various bodies or substances in the blood which act in antagonism to harmful foreign bodies, as toxins or the bacteria producing the toxins. Normal blood serum apparently contains various antibodies, and the introduction of toxins or of foreign cells also stimulates production of their specific antibodies by the immune system.
- noun (Med., Physiol. Chem.) more narrowly, any of the immunoglobulins present in the blood serum or other body fluids of an animal, which reacts with a specific antigenic substance, whether the antibody was produced as a consequence of the stimulus provided by the antigen, or was pre-existing prior to exposure of the organism to the antigen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun immunology A
protein produced by B-lymphocytes that binds to a specificantigen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the foregoing illustration it has been assumed that complete acquired active immunity has been conferred upon the experimental rabbit in consequence of the formation of antibody, specific to the diplococcus pneumoniac, sufficient in amount to ensure the destruction of enormous doses of the living cocci -- the _antigen_ (that is the substance injected in response to which _antibody_ has been elaborated) in this particular case being the bacterial protoplasm of the pneumococcus with its endo-toxins.
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If your child has the hepatitis D virus infection a blood test will show the anti-delta antibody is positive for hepatitis D virus.
Hepatitis D 2010
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Most vaccines work in terms of stimulating something known as antibody, which is a protein substance in the body.
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The antibody is a protein where the building stones - amino acids normally form four chains.
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When the functioning gene of an antibody is to be created a single V, D and J gene are drawn at random from the three groups of genes.
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The red colouring matter of the erythrocytes makes them, moreover, a very convenient reagent for research work of that kind because the action of the haemolytic antibody is directly proportional to it and can be directly estimated according to the quantity of colouring matter which, when the red corpuscles are destroyed, is dissolved in the surrounding fluid.
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"The ultimate goal is an active vaccine that elicits a robust, long-term antibody response," Wilson said.
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Wii-volution 2009
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The process, in which an antibody, called an IgE antibody, that is supposed to fight infections like parasites, instead recognizes certain food proteins as abnormal invaders within the body.
Susan Weissman: New and Promising Food Allergy Treatment 'Tricks' the Immune System Susan Weissman 2011
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The process, in which an antibody, called an IgE antibody, that is supposed to fight infections like parasites, instead recognizes certain food proteins as abnormal invaders within the body.
Susan Weissman: New and Promising Food Allergy Treatment 'Tricks' the Immune System Susan Weissman 2011
oroboros commented on the word antibody
Against everybody?
December 25, 2010