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blood serum

American  

noun

  1. serum.


blood serum British  

noun

  1. blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

blood serum Scientific  
  1. Blood plasma from which the protein fibrinogen, which causes clotting of the blood, has been removed.


Etymology

Origin of blood serum

First recorded in 1905–10

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Hypertonic blood serum can affect the shape of your red blood cells, making it harder for them to carry oxygen around your body.

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Thirty-five days later, they screened the animals’ blood serum for antibodies that targeted ACE2 and blocked SARS-CoV-2 from binding to it.

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Jahrling carried some slides containing spots of his own blood serum into his closet, shut the door, turned out the light.

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