- hemagglutination
- noun Date: 1907 agglutination of red blood cells • hemagglutinate transitive verb
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hemagglutination
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HÉMAGGLUTINATION — Agglutination des hématies aboutissant à la formation de petits amas visibles à l’œil nu, l’hémagglutination est une méthode très employée en immunologie pour détecter les anticorps et les antigènes. Il existe trois sortes de réactions… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Hemagglutination — (also haemagglutination) is a specific form of agglutination that involves red blood cells. It has two common uses in the laboratory: blood typing and the quantification of virus dilutions.Blood TypingUsing antibodies that bind to the A or B… … Wikipedia
Hémagglutination — L’hémagglutination est une variante de la réaction d’agglutination. Elle est définie comme la fixation d’anticorps spécifiques sur des structures antigéniques présentes à la surface des globules rouges. Cette réaction aboutit à la formation d’un… … Wikipédia en Français
Hemagglutination assay — The Hemagglutination Assay (HA) is a quantification of viruses by hemagglutination.Some viral families have surface or envelope proteins, that are able to agglutinate (stick to) human or animal Red blood cells (RBC) and bind to its N… … Wikipedia
hemagglutination inhibition test — 1. a highly sensitive procedure for the measurement of soluble antigens in biologic specimens; the specimen is first incubated with homologous antibody and then incubated with antigen coated red blood cells; the amount of hemagglutination… … Medical dictionary
hemagglutination — (hem ah gloo tī na shun) The agglutination of red blood cells by antibodies … Dictionary of microbiology
hemagglutination — /hee meuh glooht n ay sheuhn, hem euh /, n. the clumping of red blood cells. [1905 10; HEM + AGGLUTINATION] * * * … Universalium
hemagglutination — noun The agglutination of red blood cells … Wiktionary
hemagglutination — The agglutination of red blood cells; may be immune as a result of specific antibody either for red blood cell antigens per se or other antigens which coat the red blood cells, or may be nonimmune as in h. caused by viruses or other microbes. SYN … Medical dictionary
hemagglutination — n. clumping together of red blood cells … English contemporary dictionary
