serum disease

1. 1.

   a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum

   Synonymsserum sickness

   Broaderallergy

Questions about serum disease

What does serum disease mean?

serum disease means "a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum".

What is another word for serum disease?

Close synonyms include serum sickness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is serum disease a common word?

serum disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.