convalescent plasma

English

Noun

convalescent plasma (plural convalescent plasmas)

1. (medicine) The blood plasma of a person who has recovered from an infectious illness, which contains antibodies to the infectious disease factor (such as viruses). For convalescent plasma therapy, the plasma can be transfused into an ill victim of that disease as a treatment.

Hypernyms

• (treatment): therapeutic
• (substance): blood plasma

Derived terms

• convalescent plasma therapy

Related terms

• convalescent serum
• convalescent serum therapy

See also

• inoculant
• inoculum
• inoculation
• vaccine
• vaccination
• curative
• cure
• serum
• antiserum
• antiserum therapy