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antigenic variations

antigenic variations is the plural of antigenic variation.

Meaning of antigenic variation

Noun

antigenic variation (plural antigenic variations)

  1. The mechanism by which an infectious organism changes its surface proteins in favor of circumventing a host immune response.

Questions about antigenic variations

What is antigenic variations the plural of?
Antigenic variations is the plural of antigenic variation.

Words near antigenic variations in the dictionary

  1. antigenetically
  2. antigenetics
  3. antigenic
  4. antigenic shift
  5. antigenic variation
  6. antigenic variations
  7. antigenically
  8. antigenicities
  9. antigenicity
  10. antigenized
  11. antigenocidal

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