"immunology" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

associated with:
- immunofluorescence - (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue
- affinity - (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- incompatibility - (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
- antigen - any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)
- antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope - the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
- monovalent - containing only one kind of antibody
- polyvalent - containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen
is a type of: medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
subtypes:
- chemoimmunology, immunochemistry - the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies)
- immunopathology - the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system