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alexin

American  
[uh-lek-sin] / əˈlɛk sɪn /

noun

Immunology.

  1. complement.

alexin British  
/ ˌælɪkˈsɪnɪk, əˈlɛksɪn /

noun

  1. immunol a former word for complement

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Other Word Forms

  • alexinic adjective

Etymology

Origin of alexin

1890–95; < Greek aléx ( ein ) to ward off + -in 2

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Yet in Blow-Up, Antonioni's anti-hero holds in his possession, if only for an instant, the alexin of his cure: the saving grace of the spirit.

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The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung.

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