serum sickness

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 disease

   Broaderallergy

Questions about serum sickness

What does serum sickness mean?

serum sickness 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 sickness?

Close synonyms include serum disease. 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 sickness a common word?

serum sickness 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.