Bacteriology: an antibody able to damage or destroy a microorganism or other cell by connecting complement to it.

An antibody which can combine both with a cellular antigen (such as a virus or bacterium) and with a complement because it has two combining elements.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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