passive transfer

noun

: a local transfer of skin sensitivity from an allergic to a normal person by injection of serum from the former that is used especially for identifying specific allergens when a high degree of allergic sensitivity is suspected

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of passive transfer was in 1935

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Medical Definition

passive transfer

noun

: a local transfer of skin sensitivity from an allergic to a normal individual by injection of the allergic individual's serum that is used especially for identifying specific allergens when a high degree of sensitivity is suspected

called also Prausnitz-Küstner reaction