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Origin of blood serum

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby blood serum

blood-red, blood relation, bloodroot, blood royal, blood sausage, blood serum, bloodshed, bloodshot, blood sport, bloodstain, bloodstained

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How to use blood serum in a sentence

All of the 28 hospitalized patients in the study and all but one vaccinated subject retained sufficient immune levels in their blood serum to neutralize the wild type virus and all three variants, the researchers concluded.
Recovery From Severe COVID-19 May Provide Better Future Protection Against Some Variants|Jeffrey Kluger|September 7, 2021|Time
Hanna’s team grew the mouse embryos longer by adding blood serum from human umbilical cords, agitating them in glass jars, and pumping in a pressurized oxygen mixture.
A mouse embryo has been grown in an artificial womb—humans could be next|Antonio Regalado|March 17, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Pfizer-BioNTech have already done studies testing blood serum from people vaccinated with their original shot against some of these variants, and found that the immune response triggered by the two doses is still quite protective.
Pfizer-BioNTech Announces They Will Test a Third Dose of Their COVID-19 Vaccine|Alice Park|February 25, 2021|Time
Accuracy of canine scent detection of lung cancer in blood serum.
The Doctor Will Sniff You Now - Issue 95: Escape|Lina Zeldovich|February 3, 2021|Nautilus

Those findings add to a growing body of experiments testing antibody-rich blood serum from vaccinated people against new mutations, with largely encouraging results.
New coronavirus variants accelerate race to make sure vaccines keep up|Carolyn Y. Johnson, Laurie McGinley, Joel Achenbach|January 26, 2021|Washington Post
The clear, straw-colored fluid which is left after separation of the coagulum is called blood-serum.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Blood-serum and milk-serum which have been carefully filtered through a porcelain candle.
The Elements of Bacteriological Technique|John William Henry Eyre
Paraglobulin, par-a-glob′ū-lin, n. a globulin found in blood-serum, fibrino-plastin.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
The antiserum used for the precipitin reaction was obtained by treating a rabbit with human blood serum.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb
The method thus shows the existence of not an absolute but of a strong quantitative specificity of blood serum.
The Organism as a Whole|Jacques Loeb

British Dictionary definitions for blood serum

blood serum

noun

blood plasma from which the clotting factors have been removed

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Scientific definitions for blood serum

blood serum

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