complementoid
nounEtymology From complement + -oid.
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Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Dated 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 […]1905, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, volume 74, page 12:
- The change of toxins into toxoids is paralleled by the change of complements into complementoids.1913, Walter D'Este Emery, Immunity and specific therapy, page 158: