serum
IPA: sˈɪrʌm
noun
- The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot.
- Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual.
- A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
- The watery portion of certain animal fluids like blood, milk, etc; whey.
- (skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.
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Examples of "serum" in Sentences
- They are mixed and the serum is digested with papain.
- Fetal bovine serum is used in the manufacture of vaccines.
- Doctors helicoptered antivenin serum in from the National Zoo.
- Fetal bovine serum is a naturally filtered source of growth factors.
- Fetal bovine serum is obtained from fetal blood, and blood is not a source of infection with prions.
- Fetal bovine serum is highly diluted and eventually removed from cells during the growth of vaccine viruses.
- Therefore the difference in serum levels of the two fats after an oral dose will reflect pancreatic-based fat malabsorption.
- They made what they called a serum, which they put into a man's body and which killed the pantoblast germs without killing the man.
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