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Serum Sickness

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Noun

1. serum disease, serum sickness

a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Serum Sickness

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noun
an allergic reaction, such as vomiting, skin rash, etc, that sometimes follows 2-3 weeks after an injection of a foreign serum

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Serum Sickness

see synonyms of serum sickness
n.
A hypersensitive reaction to the administration of a foreign serum, characterized by fever, swelling, skin rash, and enlargement of the lymph nodes.

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