All antibodies synonyms

noun antibodies

• microorganism — any organism too small to be viewed by the unaided eye, as bacteria, protozoa, and some fungi and algae.
• disease — a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
• parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
• virus — an ultramicroscopic (20 to 300 nm in diameter), metabolically inert, infectious agent that replicates only within the cells of living hosts, mainly bacteria, plants, and animals: composed of an RNA or DNA core, a protein coat, and, in more complex types, a surrounding envelope.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• microbe — a microorganism, especially a pathogenic bacterium.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• bacterium — Bacterium is the singular of bacteria.
• pathogen — any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism.
• antibiotic — Antibiotics are medical drugs used to kill bacteria and treat infections.
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• antiseptic — Antiseptic is a substance that kills germs and harmful bacteria.
• antiserum — blood serum containing antibodies against a specific antigen, used to treat or provide immunity to a disease
• vaccine — any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
• antibody — Antibodies are substances which a person's or an animal's body produces in their blood in order to destroy substances which carry disease.
• serum — the clear, pale-yellow liquid that separates from the clot in the coagulation of blood; blood serum.
• preventive — Medicine/Medical. of or noting a drug, vaccine, etc., for preventing disease; prophylactic.
• antivenin — an antitoxin that counteracts a specific venom, esp snake venom
• agglutinin — a substance, such as an antibody or a lectin, that causes agglutination of cells or bacteria
• agglutinogen — an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin
• antigen — An antigen is a substance that helps the production of antibodies.
• antitoxin — an antibody that neutralizes a toxin
• counteractant — to act in opposition to; frustrate by contrary action.
• counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
• neutralizer — to make neutral; cause to undergo neutralization.
• immunizer — to make immune.
• immunotoxin — a monoclonal antibody linked to a toxin with the intention of destroying a specific target cell while leaving adjacent cells intact.