convalescent plasma
English
Noun
convalescent plasma (plural convalescent plasmas)
- (medicine) The blood plasma of a person who has recovered from an infectious illness, which contains antibodies to the infectious disease factor (such as viruses). For convalescent plasma therapy, the plasma can be transfused into an ill victim of that disease as a treatment.
Hypernyms
- (treatment): therapeutic
- (substance): blood plasma
Derived terms
- convalescent plasma therapy
Related terms
- convalescent serum
- convalescent serum therapy
See also
- inoculant
- inoculum
- inoculation
- vaccine
- vaccination
- curative
- cure
- serum
- antiserum
- antiserum therapy
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