complementophile
adjEtymology From complement + -o- + -phile.
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Immunology, Medicine, Sciences Dated Having a tendency to react with and bind to the complements in the blood.
- With the means at present at our disposal it is impossible, except in a few favorable cases, to determine whether this plurality of complementophile groups corresponds exactly to a like plurality of cytophile groups.1910, Paul Ehrlich, Studies in Immunity, page 112:
- Related terms
- complementophilic