HEMOLYSINS
\hˈiːməlˌɪsɪnz], \hˈiːməlˌɪsɪnz], \h_ˈiː_m_ə_l_ˌɪ_s_ɪ_n_z]\
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Substances, usually of biological origin, that destroy blood cells; they may be antibodies or other immunologic factors, toxins, enzymes, etc.; hemotoxins are toxic to blood in general, including the clotting mechanism; hematotoxins may refer to the hematopoietic system.
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Organic substances which cause the discharge of hemoglobin from red corpuscles and therefore lake the blood. Hemolysins's may occur naturally in animals or plants or in a given animal, they may be produced by the process of immunization, that is, by repeated injection of foreign red corpuscles. Each such hemolysin consists of two parts, the immune body or amboceptor, produced as an antibody to the substance injected, and the complement, a substance found normally in red blood. [Gr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).