idiotypy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The immune recognition of one ideotype by a system sensitized to other ideotypes in the same group.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Idiotypy was first recognized serologically by use of antisera prepared in animals of the same species"
- "The ontogeny of natural ids and anti-ids is another area in need of more detailed study, but it seems that idiotypy may appear during the formative stages of repertoire selection, even before contact with foreign antigens."
- "The restriction of idiotypic determinants to antibodies of a single specificity from an individual donor clearly differentiates idiotypy from allotypy, since allotypic determinants are shared by various antibodies of an individual."
- "Today a new dimension in idiotypy is developing, which has the potential of broad applications in biology medicine."
Etymology
From ideotype + -y.