Crossword-Solution: AGGLUTININS
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| ANTIBODIES in blood plasma causing clumping of corpuscles or bacteria | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AAER
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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The phenomenon of agglutination depends essentially on the union of molecules in the bacteria--the agglutinogens--with the corresponding agglutinins, but another essential is the presence of a certain amount of salts in the fluid, as it can be shown that when agglutinated masses of bacteria are washed salt-free the clumps become resolved.
The fact that agglutinins appear in the body at an early stage in a disease has been taken by some observers as indicating that they have nothing to do with immunity, their development being spoken of as a reaction of infection.
Agglutinative action is evidence of the presence in a serum of a somewhat similar set of substances, known as "agglutinins." When a portion of an antiserum is added to an emulsion of the corresponding organism, the organisms, if they are motile, cease to move, and in any case become gathered together into clumps.
Owing to the very similar temperature charts and misled by agglutination tests of the serum of kala-azar patients, which he regarded as showing agglutinins for the _Micrococcus melitensis_, Bently, in 1902, claimed that kala-azar was a malignant form of Malta fever.
Although some observers have noted the appearance of agglutinins in the serum of cases of acute bacillary dysentery within three or four days from the onset of the disease, yet it is usual not to obtain agglutination with the patient’s serum before the tenth day.