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arthus phenomenon

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Ar⋅thus' reac⋅tion

  [ahr-too-siz]
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–noun Immunology.
a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host.
Also called Arthus' phenomenon.

Origin:
after Nicolas-Maurice Arthus (1862–1945), French physiologist, who discovered it in 1903
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