Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Antagonistic to the toxin of diphtheria: as, antidiphtheritic serum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Destructive to, or hindering the growth of, diphtheria bacilli.
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Examples
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This he accomplished with von Behring's antidiphtheritic serum and thus made it possible to standardize this serum in units related to a fixed and invariable standard.
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Reserve one animal as a control and into the other inject 1000 units of antidiphtheritic serum.
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