Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Treatment of disease by administration of a serum obtained from an immunized animal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as serumtherapy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Serum-therapy.
  • noun The whey cure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun medicine The therapeutic use of sera or vaccines

Etymologies

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sero- +‎ therapy

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Examples

  • This research was to lead to antivenom serotherapy.

    The Pasteur Institute 1998

  • The theory that bacteria of the last-mentioned categories could not be combated by chemical means therefore continued to gain ground, and it was consequently assumed that serotherapy was the most practicable method of treating infections of this type.

    Physiology or Medicine 1939 - Presentation Speech 1965

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