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.

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