单词 | serum sickness |
释义 | > as lemmasserum sickness serum sickness n. [translating German serumkrankheit (C. von Pirquet 1903, in Wiener klin. Wochenschr. XVI. 1244/2)] anaphylactic reaction to injected foreign serum. ΚΠ 1913 W. A. N. Dorland Illustr. Med. Dict. (ed. 7) s.v. Sickness Serum-sickness, symptoms, such as rashes, fever, and pain in the joint, following the injection of antitoxic sera. 1916 Arch. Internal Med. 18 497 Most of the cases of serum sickness occurred during convalescence from pneumonia. 1951 B. Schick tr. von Pirquet & Schick Serum Sickness i. 5 We have abandoned the expression ‘serum exanthema’... In its place we have proposed the name ‘serum disease’ or ‘serum sickness’. 1970 W. H. Parker Health & Dis. Farm Animals xxi. 289 The most important practical significance of anaphylaxis in farm animals is that in the treatment of disease ‘serum sickness’ may follow the repeated use of serum from another species. < as lemmas |
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