serology
(sɪəˈrɒlədʒɪ)
[f. sero- + -logy.]
The study of blood serum; spec. the study of pathogens and other potential antigens by means of the immune responses which they induce as evidenced in blood serum; also, the serological characteristics of a disease or individual.
| 1909 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Sept. 891/2 (heading) Serology of syphilis. 1921 Glasgow Herald 22 Feb. 7 Medicine, surgery, and prevention of infectious diseases had been utterly revolutionised since bacteriology and serology were developed. 1948 Nature 20 Mar. 428/1 The studies in systematic serology which have been conducted at Rutgers University since 1925. 1956 Jrnl. Mammalogy XXXVII. 11 (heading) Comparative serology of carnivores. 1977 Blut XXXV. 165 (heading) Erythrocyte serology of some malignant diseases. |