type III hypersensitivity

type III hypersensitivity
hypersensitivity due to formation of circulating antigen-antibody complexes and their deposition in tissues; see type III hypersensitivity reaction, under hypersensitivity reaction, at reaction. Called also immune complex–mediated h.

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