Arthus' reaction

Arthus' reaction
/ahr tooh"siz/, Immunol.
a severe, local immune reaction to the injection of an antigen in a sensitized host. Also called Arthus' phenomenon.
[after Nicolas-Maurice Arthus (1862-1945), French physiologist, who discovered it in 1903]

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