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complementoid en · NOUN

Etymology

From complement + -oid.

Meanings

1. (countable, dated, uncountable) An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin.
   • The change of toxins into toxoids is paralleled by the change of complements into complementoids. 1913, Walter D'Este Emery, Immunity and specific therapy, page 158:
   • We have seen that the evidence for the existence of complementoid is supplied by its preventing complement from combining with certain molecules […] 1905, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 74, page 12:

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