blood serum

noun

1. serum ( def 1 ).

blood serum

noun

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

blood serum

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of blood serum¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.

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Blood-serum and milk-serum which have been carefully filtered through a porcelain candle.

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Paraglobulin, par-a-glob′ū-lin, n. a globulin found in blood-serum, fibrino-plastin.

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The antiserum used for the precipitin reaction was obtained by treating a rabbit with human blood serum.

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The method thus shows the existence of not an absolute but of a strong quantitative specificity of blood serum.

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