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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A protein or other substance, such as histocompatibility or red blood cell antigens, that is present in only some members of a species and therefore able to stimulate isoantibody production in other members of the same species who lack it.
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- noun an
immunologically active material (especially aprotein orpolysaccharide ) that is present only in someindividuals of a particularspecies ; responsable for the formation ofantibodies
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iso- + antigen
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