serum sickness
nounPathology.
a generalized allergic reaction to a foreign serum or drug, characterized by fever, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, and painful joints.
Origin of serum sickness
1First recorded in 1910–15
- Also called serum disease .
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How to use serum sickness in a sentence
These symptoms, to which the name serum disease is applied, usually disappear in the course of a few days.
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British Dictionary definitions for serum sickness
serum sickness
noun
an allergic reaction, such as vomiting, skin rash, etc, that sometimes follows 2-3 weeks after an injection of a foreign serum
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