Medical Dictionary

heterolysin

noun het·ero·ly·sin \ˌhet-ə-rō-ˈlīs-ən\

Medical Definition of HETEROLYSIN

:  a hemolysin that is formed in one organism in response to the introduction of the blood of an organism of a different species and has a specific hemolytic action on the blood cells of the introduced kind

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