seropositive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of blood serum, testing positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV (HIV positive).
adj
Of a person or animal, having seropositive blood serum.
noun
A person with such blood serum.
Example Sentences
- "They offer individual and group counseling to seropositive individuals, street outreach education, and an educational workshop series for people at risk."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser- Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der. Proto-Italic *serom Latin serumder. English serum English sero- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó Proto-Italic *po Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *tḱinéti Proto-Italic *sinō Proto-Italic *pozinō Latin pōnō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin īvus Latin positivusder. Old French positifbor. English positive English seropositive From sero- + positive.