EUGLOBULIN Antonyms

• any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response

• the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

• temperament or disposition

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• the hereditary derivation of an individual

• people viewed as members of a group

• smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

• an agent that produces coagulation

• any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific biochemical reactions

• a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots

• a family of proteins found in blood and milk and muscle and in plant seed

• the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

• a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

• (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

• any of a large group of nitrogenous organic compounds that are essential constituents of living cells; consist of polymers of amino acids; essential in the diet of animals for growth and for repair of tissues; can be obtained from meat and eggs and milk and legumes

• an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates