antigen
A substance that induces an immune response, usually foreign (nonself) but not always so.
Related words
- Goodpasture's antigen
- aeroantigen
- alloantigen
- antigenized
- autoantigen
- coproantigen
- ectoantigen
- exoantigen
- glycoantigen
- immunoantigen
- isoantigen
- multiantigen
Word history
From French "antigène".
Where this comes from
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