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antifreeze |
antifriction |
antifungal |
antifungal agent |
antigalastic |
antigen
| antigenic
| antigenic determinant
| antigone
| antigonia
| antigonus
antigen
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun antigen has 1 sense
- antigen(n = noun.substance) - any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies); is a kind of substance
has particulars: immunizing agent, immunogen, agglutinogen, fetoprotein, foetoprotein, anatoxin, toxoid, rh, rh factor, rhesus factor
has parts: antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope
Derived form adjective antigenic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
antigen, n. a foreign substance (e.g. toxin) which causes the body to produce antibodies.
Derivative
antigenic adj.
Etymology
G (as ANTIBODY, -GEN)
THESAURUS
antigen
Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, acquired immunity, active immunity, agglutinin, allergen, anaphylactin, antiantibody, antibody, antiserum, antitoxic serum, antitoxin, antivenin, arterial blood, artificial immunity, blood, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodmobile, bloodstream, circulation, clinical dextran, congenital immunity, dextran, erythrocyte, familial immunity, globulin, gore, grume, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemometer, humor, ichor, immunity, immunization, incomplete antibody, inherent immunity, inherited immunity, interferon, isoantibody, leukocyte, lifeblood, natural immunity, neutrophil, nonspecific immunity, nonsusceptibility to disease, opsonic immunity, opsonin, passive immunity, phagocyte, phagocytic immunity, plasma, plasma substitute, precipitin, racial immunity, red corpuscle, resistance, serum, specific immunity, toxin-antitoxin immunity, type O, venous blood, white corpuscle
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