Medical term:
avidity
avidity
[ah-vid´ĭ-te]1. eagerness, or a strong attraction for something.
2. in immunology, an imprecise measure of the strength of antigen-antibody binding based on the rate at which the complex is formed.
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a·vid·i·ty
(ă-vid'ĭ-tē),The binding strength of an antibody for an antigen.
[L. avidus, greedy, eager fr. aveo, to crave]
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avidity
(ə-vĭd′ĭ-tē)n. pl. avidi·ties
See affinity.
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avidity
The degree of stability of an antibody’s binding with its antigen, which is a function of the number of shared binding sites and the binding energy of the antibody and antigen, which is the sum of the binding affinities of the combining sites on the antibody.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
avidity
Immunology The degree of stability of an antibody's binding with its antigen, which is a function of the number of shared binding sites and the binding energy of an antibody and antigen–the sum of the binding affinities of the combining sites on the antibody. Cf Affinity.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
a·vid·i·ty
(ă-vid'i-tē)A measure of the binding strength of a multivalent antibody to a multivalent antigen.
See also: affinity
See also: affinity
[L. avidus, greedy, eager fr. aveo, to crave]
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