Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun complement_fixation

1 sense of complement fixation

Sense 1
complement fixation -- (an immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination))
       => immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response -- (a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen)