blood serum

noun

: the clear yellowish fluid that remains from blood plasma after clotting factors (such as fibrinogen and prothrombin) have been removed by clot formation

Examples of blood serum in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Chang and his coauthors also analyzed samples of blood serum from humans with lupus, dermatomyositis and systemic sclerosis and compared them with samples from people without autoimmune disease. Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024 For flu, monitoring antigenic drift involves conducting a slew of blood serum tests in the lab and looking for patterns in the data. IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2022 Mayo is collecting blood serum samples stored at blood banks from another 2,000 to 3,000 patients who received convalescent plasma to expand its recent findings that high-dose plasma infusions had a greater impact on COVID-19 mortality than low-dose infusions. Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 20 Aug. 2020 The results, described in a 2011 paper in Nature, showed that the young mice treated with blood serum from old mice performed worse on tests of learning and memory. Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2023 Without sound evidence linking skin exposure from clothing to upticks in PFAS in blood serum levels, Calonge said, for now, decisions are largely left up to risk tolerance. Hannah Norman, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023 When researchers at Stanford University grew human neurons in a dish and treated them with blood serum from young mice, the neurons formed more synapses, which transmit electrical and chemical signals between cells, as well as more dendritic branches, which pick up messages from other neurons. Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 27 May 2022 Compared to the original version of the coronavirus, lab tests that pitted omicron against the blood serum of people who’d had two doses of the vaccine detected a 25-fold reduction in neutralizing antibodies, the immune proteins that thwart the virus. oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2021 Even pharmaceutical companies—optimistic or pessimistic—acknowledge the need for further research and our immune systems are built from more than antibodies, which are usually what are being assessed in laboratory tests involving blood serum from trial subjects. Robert Hart, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021

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Word History

First Known Use

1801, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blood serum was in 1801

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“Blood serum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blood%20serum. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

blood serum

noun
: blood plasma from which certain substances (as fibrinogen) involved in the clotting of blood have been removed

Medical Definition

blood serum

noun

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