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n. - An antibody in blood serum that attaches to invading microorganisms and other antigens to make them more susceptible to the action of phagocytes.

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  • I call opsonin, goes on in the system by ups and downs -- Nature being always rhythmical, you know -- and that what the inoculation does is to stimulate the ups or...
  • The "opsonin," or "relish," is something exuded into or produced in the blood fluid when the attacking microbe arrives.
  • In the absence of the relish (the Greek word for it used by Sir Almroth Wright, its discoverer, is "opsonin"), the eater-cells are sluggish -- too sluggish -- in their work.
  • Because of this characteristic, it has been called opsonin by Wright and bacteriotropin by Neufeld.
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