Serology

Definition: Serology

Serology

Noun

1. The branch of medical science that deals with serums; especially with blood serums and disease.

Specialty Definitions: Serology

Domain	Definitions
Health	The study of serum, especially of antigen-antibody reactions in vitro. (references)
Medicine	A branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of blood sera. Source: European Union. (references)
	That branch of science which deals with serum. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Serology

English words defined with "serology": serologic, serological. (references)

Specialty definitions using "serology": medical laboratory manage, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST, CHIEF ♦ serologic, serological. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Serology

Domain	Title
Books	Essentials of Immunology & Serology (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Serology

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	During this 1961 Plague Study, laboratorians collected data focusing on the serology and immunology of Plague.Credit: CDC.		Central Medical Department Laboratory, Dijon, France : Personnel, Department of Serology.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Serology

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Many human infections are asymptomatic, with only eosinophilia and positive serology. (references)
		Antigen detection, polymerase chain reaction assay, virus isolation, and serology can be used to identify adenovirus infections. (references)
		However, variability among serology tests applied in commercial laboratories may limit their usefulness in confirming H. pylori eradication. (references)
Business		Other sub-sectors that are in constant demand include products in immunology and serology. (references)
		Local production mainly consists of reagents and test kits for clinical chemistry, hematology, serology, and microbiology. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Serology

"Serology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Serology" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Serology

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
serology	30
forensic serology	11
serology tissue typing	5
serology test	4
serology syphilis	3
serology technique	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Serology

Language		Translations for "serology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		血清学 (serological). (various references)

Danish		serologi. (various references)

Dutch		serologie. (various references)

Finnish		HIV-serologia (anti-HIV serology). (various references)

French		sérologie. (various references)

German		Serologie. (various references)

Greek		ορρολογία, ορολογία (terminology). (various references)

Hungarian		szerológia (immunology), szérumtan. (various references)

Italian		sierologia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		血清学 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		けっせいがく. (various references)

Korean		혈청학 (serological). (various references)

Pig Latin		erologysay

Portuguese		serologia. (various references)

Romanian		serologie. (various references)

Russian		серология. (various references)

Spanish		serología. (various references)

Swedish		serologi. (various references)

Turkish		serum bilimi, seroloji. (various references)

Ukranian		серологія. (various references)

Vietnamese		khoa huyết thanh, huyết thanh học. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Serology

Misspellings
	"Serology" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: certology, hercology, seaology, Seradoy, sicology. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Serology"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "serology" (pronounced serÄ"lujē)
6	-r Ä" l u j ē	astrology, neurology, petrology, virology.
5	-Ä" l u j ē	anesthesiology, anthology, anthropology, apology, archaeology, archeology, bacteriology, biology, biotechnology, cardiology, chronology, cosmetology, criminology, cytology, dendrochronology, dermatology, doxology, ecology, embryology, endocrinology, entomology, epidemiology, epistemology, ethnology, ethology, etiology, etymology, genealogy, geology, geomorphology, gerontology, graphology, gynecology, histology, Hymnology, ideology, immunology, kinesiology, limnology, meteorology, methodology, microbiology, micropaleontology, mineralogy, morphology, mycology, mythology, numerology, oncology, ontology, ophthalmology, ornithology, otology, paleontology, pathology, penology, pharmacology, physiology, Pomology, psychology, radiology, rheumatology, seismology, sociology, terminology, theology, toxicology, urology, zoology.
4	-l u j ē	analogy, cosmology, elegy, eulogy, trilogy.
3	-u j ē	prodigy, strategy.
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Anagrams: Serology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-o-r-s-y"
	-1 letter: regosol.
	-2 letters: goosey, gyrose, looeys, looser, oglers, sorely.
	-3 letters: gleys, glory, goers, gooey, goose, goosy, gores, gorse, gorsy, greys, gyres, gyros, loges, logos, looey, loose, lores, loser, lyres, ogler, ogles, ogres, oleos, ology, orles, oyers, roles, roose, slyer, sooey, sorel, sorgo, yores.
	-4 letters: egos, ergo, ergs, eros, gels, gley, goer, goes, goos, gore, gory.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-o-r-s-y"
	+2 letters: bryologies, gorgeously, pyrologies, stereology.
	+3 letters: hydrologies, karyologies, mythologers, phraseology, soteriology, troglodytes.
	+4 letters: courageously, cryptologies, embryologies, embryologist, laryngoscope, outrageously, papyrologies, snollygoster.
	+5 letters: cryobiologies, embryologists, glycoproteins, laryngologies, laryngoscopes, martyrologies, myrmecologies, myrmecologist, mythologizers, proteoglycans, serologically, snollygosters.
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