SERUM GLOBULIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does serum globulin mean? 

• SERUM GLOBULIN (noun)
  The noun SERUM GLOBULIN has 1 sense:

1. globulins occurring in blood serum and containing most of the antibodies of the blood

  Familiarity information: SERUM GLOBULIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERUM GLOBULIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Globulins occurring in blood serum and containing most of the antibodies of the blood

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("serum globulin" is a kind of...):

globulin (a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "serum globulin"):

C-reactive protein; CRP (a byproduct of inflammation; a globulin that is found in the blood in some cases of acute inflammation)

Holonyms ("serum globulin" is a substance of...):

blood serum; serum (an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates)

 Context examples 

A type of globulin in plasma that in electrically charged solutions exhibits greatest colloidal mobility among that of serum globulins.

(Alpha-Globulin, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure to isolate one or more anti-globulin antibodies from either serum derived from animals immunized with human serum globulins or from fluids harvested from stable immunoglobulin-secreting cell lines.

(Anti-Human Globulin Preparation, NCI Thesaurus)