antireticularadj.
Med.
Acting against the reticulum cells of the reticulo-endothelial system; spec. in antireticular cytotoxic serum (abbrev. A.C.S.), a cytotoxic serum prepared from animal and human spleen and bone marrow, claimed to have a beneficial effect on the reticulo-endothelial system.
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antireticular cytotoxic serum1942
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1942 tr. B. E. Linberg in A. A. Bogomolets Therapeutic Action of the Antireticular Cytotoxic Serum ‘ACS’ 154 Everywhere where a weakening of the physiological system of the connective tissue takes place it can be activized by means of ACS.
1943 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 Aug. 203/1 The favourable effect of antireticular cytotoxic serum on the course of infectious diseases of the nervous system.
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