Complementoid

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin. countable, dated, uncountable

    "We have seen that the evidence for the existence of complementoid is supplied by its preventing complement from combining with certain molecules […]"

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"We have seen that the evidence for the existence of complementoid is supplied by its preventing complement from combining with certain molecules […]"

Etymology

From complement + -oid.

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