Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or produced by opsonins.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to opsonin.
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- adjective Relating to, produced by, or involving
opsonin .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the treatment of illness by Dr. Wright's vaccinotherapy, the phagocytosis shows the opsonic strength of the blood.
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This example of contagious mammitis should admonish those who think it enough to determine the opsonic strength to be able to judge how an illness or indeed immunity is faring.
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He even judges the progress of immunity and cure according to the opsonic strength of the blood fluid.
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Faced with such facts, some scientists stress the need to study not only the opsonic property of blood fluid but also to take into account the phagocytic function of the white corpuscles themselves.
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We said above that this method was coming to be joined by that of determination of the property of phagocytes, independently of the opsonic action in itself.
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This fraction, expressed as a percentage of unity = the _opsonic index_.
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One of the chief objects in registering the opsonic power in such cases is to avoid the introduction of additional vaccine when the opsonic index is low, that is, during the negative phase, as if this were done a further diminution of the opsonic action might result.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The object in such treatment is to raise the opsonic index of the serum, this being taken as an indication of increased immunity.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Chicago for a man who's made a speciality of opsonic treatment for pneumonia.
Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg
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In the method for demonstrating opsonin about to be described, a comparison is made between the opsonic "power" of the pooled serum and the specific serum.
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