| anticomplement immunofluorescence | A technique used to make certain indirect fluorescent antibody techniques more specific and sensitive. Here the fluorescent dye is conjugated to antibody directed at complement and then added to a complement-fixing complex of antigen and patient antibody. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| anticomplementary | Denoting a substance possessing the power of diminishing or abolishing the action of a complement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anticomplementary factor | A factor that interferes with the action or function of complement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anticomplementary serum | Serum that destroys or inactivates complement. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anticontagious | <medicine> Opposing or destroying contagion. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anticonvulsant | <pharmacology> An agent that prevents or relieves convulsions. (13 Nov 1997) |
| anticonvulsants | Drugs used to prevent seizures or reduce their severity. (12 Dec 1998) |
| anticonvulsive | <medicine> Good against convulsions. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anticor | <veterinary> A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart. Origin: Pref. Anti- + L. Cor heart; cf. F. Anticur. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anticous | <botany> Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily. Origin: L. Anticus in front, foremost, fr. Ante before. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anticurare | A drug property referring to the capacity to reverse the muscle paralysis produced by d-tubocurarine and other curare-like neuromuscular blocking drugs. Examples include neostigmine, pyridostigmine, and edrophonium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| anticus | A term in anatomical nomenclature to designate a muscle or other structure which of all similar structures is nearest the front or ventral surface. Nomina Anatomica uses "anterior" in place of this term. Origin: L. In the very front, fr. Ante, before (05 Mar 2000) |
| anticyclone | <meteorology> A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone. Anticyclon"ic, Anticyclon"ically. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| anticytotoxin | A specific antibody that inhibits or destroys the activity of a cytotoxin. (05 Mar 2000) |