(Often hog's lard.) The internal fat of the abdomen of a swine, esp. when rendered and clarified, much used in cooking, and in pharmacy as the basis…

Suet, as used in pharmacy.

The action of lard, v.; the preparation of meat for cooking by inserting pieces of fat bacon. †Rarely concrete. Fat, grease, unguent.

Any of a class of small basic proteins which occur in association with nucleic acids in the sperm of fish and other animals.

Medicine. A preparation made from animal kidneys, used in organotherapy. Obsolete. rare.

Therapeutics. The blood serum of an animal used as a therapeutic or diagnostic agent.

A protamine extracted from the testicles of fish of the genus Accipenser, esp. A. sturio and A. guldenstadtii, sturgeons of the Baltic and Caspian…

= thyro-iodine n. at thyro-, comb._form affix 2.

A pancreatic extract used in medicine.

A sulphated polysaccharide present in various body tissues and organs, esp. the liver, lungs, and muscles, and used therapeutically as an…

Acting against the reticulum cells of the reticulo-endothelial system; spec. in antireticular cytotoxic serum (abbrev. A.C.S.), a cytotoxic serum…

An enzyme which catalyses the conversion of plasminogen to plasmin and is used in the treatment of blood clots.

A substance precipitated by the cooling of a solution or suspension; spec. (now frequently without article) a preparation rich in clotting…

an antiserum rich in xenoantibodies.

A contraction of antitoxic serum (see antitoxic, adj.).