anti-idiotype

anti-idiotype
anti-idiotypic /an'tee id'ee euh tip"ik, an'tuy-/, adj.
/an'tee id"ee euh tuyp', an'tuy-/, n. Immunol.
a molecular arrangement on an antibody that is the counterpart of that on a different antibody, thus making one an antigen to the other.

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