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seropositive

seropositive adjective: of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).

Adjective

seropositive (not comparable)

  1. Of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
    Antonyms:
    seronegative
  2. Of a person or animal, having seropositive blood serum.
    • They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk.1990 April 21, Robb Johnson, “AIDS Education in Guatemala”, in Gay Community News, page 4
    • Other tests (marked ‘+ +’ in Table 2C.8) are more sensitive in that they produce higher antibody titres but they do not detect substantially more seropositive individuals in a population.2004, Paul D. Griffiths, “Cytomegalovirus”, in Arie J. Zuckerman et al., editors, Principles and Practice of Clinical Virology, 5th edition, John Wiley and Sons, →ISBN, page 108
    Antonyms:
    seronegative

Noun

seropositive (plural seropositives)

  1. A person with such blood serum.

Antonyms of seropositive

Forms of seropositive

pluralseropositives

Origin of seropositive

From sero- + positive.

Words formed from seropositive

Questions about seropositive

What does seropositive mean?
Seropositive means of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
What part of speech is seropositive?
Seropositive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near seropositive in the dictionary

  1. serophobes
  2. serophobia
  3. serophobias
  4. serophobic
  5. seropositioning
  6. seropositive
  7. seropositives
  8. seropositivities
  9. seropositivity
  10. seropredominance
  11. seroprevalance

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