Antigen



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.抗原 ( 注射于动物体内, 能使之产生抗体的物质)
• ［英］ 抗原 ( substance which, when it is put into the body, causes it to produce antibodies)
• ［记］ anti ( 反对) +gen ( 出生, 生产) -> [能]产生对抗物质的东西 -> 抗原

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: German, from French antigène, from anticorps antibody + -gène -gen
• Date: 1908
• any substance (as an immunogen or a hapten) foreign to the body that evokes an immune response either alone or after forming a complex with a larger molecule (as a protein) and that is capable of binding with a product (as an antibody or T cell) of the immune response; specifically immunogen
• • antigenic adjective
• • antigenically adverb
• • antigenicity noun

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