Serum Definition

sîrəm
sera, serums
noun
serums
The clear, yellowish fluid of the blood which separates from a blood clot after coagulation and shrinkage.
Webster's New World
A clear, watery animal fluid, as serous fluid.
Webster's New World
Blood serum containing agents of immunity, taken from an animal made immune to a specific disease by inoculation: it is used as an antitoxin and for diagnosis.
Webster's New World
The whey of milk.
Webster's New World
The thin, watery part of a plant fluid.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Serum

Noun

Singular:
serum
Plural:
sera, serums

Origin of Serum

  • From Latin serum (“whey"). Cognates: French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero.

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin whey, serum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Serum Sentence Examples

  • If my serum worked, then we know her blood will give immunity.

  • In other words the substances, which when forming part of the cells fix the toxin to the cells, constitute antitoxin molecules when free in the serum.

  • It has been completely established that in this phenomenon of lysogenesis there are two substances concerned, one specially developed or developed in excess, and the other present in normal serum.

  • Another property which may be possessed by an anti-bacterial serum is that of agglutination.

  • Shortly afterwards Widal and also Griinbaum showed that the serum of patients suffering from typhoid fever, even at an early stage of the disease, agglutinated the typhoid bacillus - a fact which laid the foundation of serum diagnosis.

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Words Starting With

SSESER

Words Ending With

MUMRUM

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Words Starting With S and Ending With M

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