serotherapy

English

Etymology

From sero- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: se‧ro‧the‧ra‧py

Noun

serotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural serotherapies)

1. (medicine) The therapeutic use of sera or vaccines.
   • 2016, Jonathan Simon, Diphtheria Serum as a Technological Object: A Philosophical Analysis of Serotherapy in France 1894-1900:

     I will take this opportunity to present various regional initiatives in serum production that are absent from most historical accounts of serotherapy, even those focusing on France.

Derived terms

• autoserotherapy
• serotherapeutic

Translations

the therapeutic use of sera or vaccines

• Finnish: seerumihoito, seroterapia
• French: sérothérapie (fr) f
• Italian: sieroterapia (it) f