单词 | secretor |
释义 | secretorn. Physiology. a. One who secretes appreciable amounts of blood-group antigens with his or her bodily fluids. ΚΠ 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 42 933 This applies to about 80 per cent of all individuals (secretors) and if a fetus of Group A belongs to the class of non-secretors (20 per cent)..the maternal iso-agglutinin anti-A may serve as the source of the intrauterine hemolytic process. 1950 Sci. News 15 111 Most people secrete the appropriate blood group substances (antigens) in bodily secretions such as saliva and tears. About one-seventh of the population, however, do not do this, and are called ‘non-secretors’... Some cysts, in ‘secretors’, contain the A and B substances in very high concentration. 1962 R. Jeffries Exhibit No. 13 xi. 112 An examination of the semen enabled a typing to be made... The murderer is from group B and is what is known as a secretor. 1971 J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xl. 585 The secretor genes are quite independent of the ABO genes. b. gen. One who or that which secretes. ΚΠ 1972 Sci. Amer. Aug. 46/2 Recently Everitt and his colleagues have learned that when the female monkey's adrenals—the principal secretors of the male hormone androstenedione—are removed, her sexual receptivity is greatly reduced. 1977 Lancet 22 Oct. 841/2 Of these secretors, 50% secreted 50 μl of fluid and 10% secreted as much as 400 μl of fluid. Compounds secretor character n. = secretor status n. ΚΠ 1956 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 728/1 We have obtained a series of unrelated duodenal ulcer cases and compared their secretor character with controls taken from the general population. secretor status n. the state of being or not being a secretor (sense a). ΚΠ 1970 Gershowitz & Neel in D. Aminoff Blood & Tissue Antigens 39 The secretor status of stomach cancer patients should be investigated. 1976 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 69 36/2 Attempts have been made to discover whether individuals are carrying the dystrophia myotonica gene by examining their secretor status. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1941 |
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