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complementophile

complementophile adjective: having a tendency to react with and bind to the complements in the blood.

Adjective

complementophile (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Having a tendency to react with and bind to the complements in the blood.
    • With the means at present at our disposal it is impossible, except in a few favorable cases, to determine whether this plurality of complementophile groups corresponds exactly to a like plurality of cytophile groups.1910, Paul Ehrlich, Studies in Immunity, page 112

Forms of complementophile

alternative formcomplementophil

Origin of complementophile

From complement + -o- + -phile.

Questions about complementophile

What does complementophile mean?
Complementophile means having a tendency to react with and bind to the complements in the blood.
What part of speech is complementophile?
Complementophile is an adjective.

Words near complementophile in the dictionary

  1. complementologists
  2. complementology
  3. complementopathies
  4. complementopathy
  5. complementophil
  6. complementophile
  7. complementor
  8. complementors
  9. complements
  10. completability
  11. completable

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