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Serum sickness: an immune complex disease appearing some days (usually 1-2 weeks) after injection of a foreign serum or serum protein, with local and systemic reactions such as urticaria, fever, general lymphadenopathy, edema, arthritis, and occasionally albuminuria or severe nephritis; originally described in patients receiving serotherapy. The term is sometimes used for clinically similar allergic reactions to drugs.immune complex disease. SYN: serum disease, serum reaction.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Serum sickness: a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Serum sickness: immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria; when they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.
Source: Diseases Database
Serum sickness: immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria; when they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.
Source: CRISP
Serum sickness: Immune complex disease caused by the administration of foreign serum or serum proteins and characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, and urticaria. When they are complexed to protein carriers, some drugs can also cause serum sickness when they act as haptens inducing antibody responses.
Source: MeSH 2007
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Serum sickness (medical condition): See Serum sickness (disease information).
»Introduction: Serum sickness
»Symptoms of Serum sickness
»Causes of Serum sickness
»Treatments for Serum sickness
Serum sickness: Serum sickness is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
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The following list attempts to classify Serum sickness into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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