| Definition of 'serum sickness' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) serum sickness, serum disease
a delayed allergic reaction to the injection of an antiserum caused by an antibody reaction to an antigen in the donor serum
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| Definition of 'serum sickness' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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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.
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