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complementoid

noun

Etymology

From complement + -oid.

  1. derived from complēmentum
  2. inherited from complement
  3. suffixed as complementoid — “complement + oid”

Definitions

  1. An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a…

    An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin.

    • We have seen that the evidence for the existence of complementoid is supplied by its preventing complement from combining with certain molecules […]
    • The change of toxins into toxoids is paralleled by the change of complements into complementoids.

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