poisoning

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It does not contain the antitoxins and opsonins which are normally found in the plasma and lymph, hence the liability to infective meningitis after injuries and operations on the central nervous system.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

The opsonins, for example, those substances which butter the bacteria so that the appetite of the white cells for them is properly roused, are mobilized by thyroid feeding or injection.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.

At which point the theory of opsonins comes very opportunely to shake hands with it.

From The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by Shaw, Bernard

But those who survived were able to make in their blood-stream the substances known as anti-bodies, the "opsonins," to help the white blood corpuscles devour the germs.

From The Book of Life by Sinclair, Upton

It is known as "defibrinated" blood.13.Certain substances, called opsonins, have recently been shown to exist in the plasma, that aid the white corpuscles in their work of destroying germs.

From Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Walters, Francis M.