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HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterophile antibody mean?
• HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY (noun)
The noun HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY has 1 sense:
1. an antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosis
Familiarity information: HETEROPHILE ANTIBODY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An antibody found in the blood of someone suffering from infectious mononucleosis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
Forssman antibody; heterophil antibody; heterophile antibody
Hypernyms ("heterophile antibody" is a kind of...):
antibody (any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response)
Context examples
A measurement of the heterophile antibodies in a biological specimen.
(Heterophile Antibody Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The determination of the amount of heterophile antibodies present in a sample.
(Heterophile Antibody Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
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