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hu·mor·al

 (hyo͞o′mər-əl)
adj.
1. Relating to bodily fluids, especially serum.
2. Relating to or arising from any of the bodily humors.
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humoral

(ˈhjuːmərəl)
adj
1. (Medicine) immunol denoting or relating to a type of immunity caused by free antibodies circulating in the blood
2. (Physiology) obsolete of or relating to the four bodily fluids (humours)
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hu•mor•al

(ˈhyu mər əl; often ˈyu-)

adj.
of, pertaining to, or proceeding from a fluid of the body.
[1375–1425; late Middle English < Medieval Latin]
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Adj.1.humoral - of or relating to bodily fluids
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hu·mor·al

a. humoral, rel. a los fluidos del cuerpo.
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If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue: he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.
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[USA] Aug 7(ANI): When the body is continuously exposed to pathogens, the immune system notably mounts what is known as a 'humoral response', which corresponds to the production of antibodies that can help fight infections and provide long-term protection.
Since the time of Hippocrates (around 400 BCE), Western medical knowledge has been created by men and has been used to advance assumptions about male superiority and female inferiority.Those gendered beliefs are most clearly evident in the humoral system, an idea that Hippocrates's son-in-law Polybus originated in the fourth century BC.
In subcohorts with 3,293 and 466 participants for humoral and cell-mediated immunogenicity, respectively, serum anti-gE antibodies and CD4 T-cells expressing two or more of four activation markers assessed after stimulation with gE-peptides were measured.
Some of these models considered the cellular immune response mediated by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) cells that attack and kill the infected cells [1-5] and the others considered the humoral immune response based on the antibodies which are produced by the B-cells and are programmed to neutralize the viruses [6-11].
The submission is for the transfer of GAMMAGARD LIQUID [Immune Globulin Infusion (Human)] 10% Solution, a replacement therapy for primary humoral immunodeficiency (PI).