Crossword-Solution: OPSONINS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OPSONINS | anagram | SPONSION |
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| ANTIBODIES that coat bacterium | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECMEAZ
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eruption
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Sentences with OPSONINS (5)
The serum assists in pagocytosis by the action on bacteria of substances called _opsonins_ which are contained in it, and the formation of which can be very greatly stimulated.
These are known as _opsonins_ or _alexins_, and they act on the bacteria by a process comparable to narcotisation, and render them an easy prey for the phagocytes.
The lymph contains the opsonins which act on the bacteria and render them less able to resist the attack of the phagocytes, as well as the various protective antibodies which neutralise the toxins.
The opsonins appear to act in such a manner as to weaken the germs and make them more susceptible to the attacks of the white corpuscles.
IMMUNITY AND CURATIVE INOCULATIONS 241 Inoculation of Smallpox--Antitoxins--The Wonderful Properties of Blood--Germ-killing Poisons in the Blood--Opsonins or Sauce for Germs.