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blood serum
blood serum
noun
- blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed
blood serum
- Blood plasma from which the protein fibrinogen, which causes clotting of the blood, has been removed.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blood serum1
First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences
The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.
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Blood-serum and milk-serum which have been carefully filtered through a porcelain candle.
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Paraglobulin, par-a-glob′ū-lin, n. a globulin found in blood-serum, fibrino-plastin.
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The antiserum used for the precipitin reaction was obtained by treating a rabbit with human blood serum.
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The method thus shows the existence of not an absolute but of a strong quantitative specificity of blood serum.
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