antibody
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
antibody/ˈantibɒdi/
▶noun (pl. antibodies) a blood protein produced by the body in response to and counteracting an antigen.
'antibody' also found in these Oxford entries:
Ab
- agglutinin
- antigen
- antitoxin
- autoantibody
- avidity
- bacteriolysis
- clump
- complement
- ELISA
- epitope
- lysin
- monoclonal antibody
- monospecific
- multivalent
- opsonin
- precipitin
- radioimmunoassay
- raise
- titre
