serum

See also: Serum, sèrum, and sérum

English

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serum

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin serum (“whey”). Cognates include French sérum, Spanish suero, Italian siere, siero, Portuguese soro. Doublet of suero.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪəɹəm/, /ˈsiːɹəm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəm/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsiɹəm/
• Rhymes: (UK) -ɪəɹəm, (US) -ɪɹəm

Noun

serum (countable and uncountable, plural serums or sera)

2. Ellipsis of blood serum.
4. Blood serum used as a blood product, in the practice of medicine: blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals (human or nonhuman), containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual (human or nonhuman).

   Near-synonym: antiserum

6. A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.
8. The watery portion of certain other animal fluids, such as milk; whey.
10. (skincare) A skincare product of varying consistencies with a high concentration of one or more active ingredients, for a targeted purpose, such as preventing acne, repairing sun damage, or moisturizing.

Derived terms

Terms derived from serum

• antiserum
• blood serum
• convalescent serum
• immune serum
• serous
• serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase
• serum sickness
• truth serum

Related terms

• sero-

Translations

yellowish fluid obtained from blood

Arabic: مَصْل دَم m (maṣl dam), مَصْل m (maṣl) Armenian: շիճուկ (hy) (šičuk) Belarusian: сыро́ватка f (syróvatka) Bulgarian: се́рум (bg) m (sérum) Catalan: sèrum (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 血清 (zh) (xuèqīng, xiěqīng) Czech: sérum (cs) n Danish: serum n Dutch: serum (nl) n Esperanto: serumo Finnish: seerumi (fi), veriseerumi (fi), verihera (fi) French: sérum (fr) m Galician: soro (gl) m German: Serum (de) m Greek: Ancient: ὀρός (grc) m (orós) Modern: ορός (el) m (orós) Hebrew: נסיוב (he) m (nasyúv) Hungarian: szérum (hu), vérsavó (hu) Indonesian: serum (id) Italian: siero (it) Japanese: 血清 (ja) (けっせい, kessei) Korean: 혈청(血淸) (ko) (hyeolcheong) Macedonian: серум m (serum) Malay: serum Navajo: dił bitooʼ Persian: خونابه (fa) (xunâbe), سرم (fa) (serom) Polish: surowica (pl) f Portuguese: soro (pt) Romanian: ser (ro) Russian: сы́воротка (ru) f (sývorotka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: се́рум m Roman: sérum (sh) m Slovak: sérum n Slovene: serum m Spanish: suero (es) m Thai: ซีรัม (th), น้ำเหลืองของเลือด Tibetan: ཆུ་སེར (chu ser, literally “yellow water”) Turkish: serum (tr) Ukrainian: сиро́ватка f (syróvatka) Vietnamese: huyết thanh (vi) (血清)

blood serum containing antibodies — see antiserum

watery fluid from animal tissue

Finnish: kudosneste (fi) Indonesian: serum (id)

watery portion of certain animal fluids

Bulgarian: суроватка (bg) f (surovatka) Finnish: hera (fi) Hungarian: savó (hu) Indonesian: serum (id)

skincare product

Finnish: seerumi (fi) Indonesian: serum (id) Polish: serum (pl) n Portuguese: sérum m Spanish: sérum (es) m

See also

• antidote
• antitoxin
• antivenom

Further reading

• “serum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “serum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “serum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• semur, resum, Reums, Mureș, Remus, merus, muser, Muser, murse, mures, Sumer, Esrum

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin serum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseː.rʏm/, [ˈsɪː.rʏm]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: se‧rum

Noun

serum n (plural sera or serums)

1. blood serum

Derived terms

• antiserum
• bloedserum

Descendants

• → Indonesian: serum

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

serum

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch serum (“serum”), from Latin serum.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈserum/ [ˈse.rʊm]
• Rhymes: -erum
• Syllabification: se‧rum

Noun

serum (plural serum-serum)

1. serum:
   1. (hematology) the clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot
   2. (immunology) blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual
   3. a watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister
   4. (skincare) a skincare product of varying consistencies with a high concentration of one or more active ingredients, for a targeted purpose, such as preventing acne, repairing sun damage, or moisturizing

Derived terms

• menyerum

• serum darah
• serum kreatinin

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈrum/ [səˈrum]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: se‧rum

Noun

sêrum (plural serum-serum)

1. syllabic abbreviation of serangan umum (“general offensive”)

Further reading

• “serum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.