antireticular, a. Med.
(ˌæntɪrɪˈtɪkjʊlə(r))
[anti-1 3 b.]
Acting against the reticulum cells of the reticulo-endothelial system; spec. in antireticular cytotoxic serum (abbrev. A.C.S.), a cytotoxic serum prepared from animal and human spleen and bone marrow, claimed to have a beneficial effect on the reticulo-endothelial system.
| 1942 tr. B. E. Linberg in A. A. Bogomolets Therapeutic Action of the Antireticular Cytotoxic Serum ‘ACS’ 154 Everywhere where a weakening of the physiological system of the connective tissue takes place it can be activized by means of ACS. 1943 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Aug. 203/1 The favourable effect of antireticular cytotoxic serum on the course of infectious diseases of the nervous system. |