- Gengou phenomenon
- Gen·gou phenomenon (zhaw-gooґ) [Octave Gengou, Belgian bacteriologist, 1875–1957] complement fixation.
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Gengou phenomenon
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phenomenon — 1. A symptom; an occurrence of any sort, whether ordinary or extraordinary, in relation to a disease. 2. Any unusual fact or occurrence. [G. phainomenon, fr. phaino, to cause to appear] adhesion p. a p. manifested by the adherence of antigen… … Medical dictionary
Gengou — Octave, French bacteriologist, 1875–1957. See G. phenomenon, Bordet G. potato blood agar, Bordet G. bacillus, Bordet G. phenomenon, Bordet and G. reaction … Medical dictionary
Bordet-Gengou agar (culture medium) bacillus phenomenon (reaction) — Bor·det Gen·gou agar (culture medium), bacillus, phenomenon (reaction) (bor daґ zhahn gooґ) [Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist, serologist, and Nobel prize winner, 1870–1961; Octave Gengou, French bacteriologist,… … Medical dictionary
Bordet — Jules, Belgian bacteriologist and Nobel laureate, 1870–1961. See Bordetella, B. Gengou potato blood agar, B. Gengou bacillus, B. Gengou phenomenon, B. and Gengou reaction … Medical dictionary
test — 1. To prove; to try a substance; to determine the chemical nature of a substance by means of reagents. 2. A method of examination, as to determine the presence or absence of a definite disease or of some substance in any of the fluids, tissues,… … Medical dictionary
fixation — 1. The condition of being firmly attached or set. 2. In histology, the rapid killing of tissue elements and their preservation and hardening to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. SYN: fixing. 3. In… … Medical dictionary
complement fixation — n the process of binding serum complement to the product formed by the union of an antibody and the antigen for which it is specific that occurs when complement is added to a mixture (in proper proportion) of such an antibody and antigen * * *… … Medical dictionary
reaction — 1. The response of a muscle or other living tissue or organism to a stimulus. 2. The color change effected in litmus and certain other organic pigments by contact with substances such as acids or alkalies; also the property that such substances… … Medical dictionary
