Serum /(sē"rŭm)/
Se·rum
Serum
n.
- The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. (Physiol.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Blood serum
- the pale yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the liquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin.
- Muscle serum
- the thin watery fluid which separates from the muscles after coagulation of the muscle plasma; the watery portion of the plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.
- Serum albumin
- an albuminous body, closely related to egg albumin, present in nearly all serous fluids; esp., the albumin of blood serum.
- Serum globulin
- paraglobulin.
- Serum of milk
- the whey, or fluid portion of milk, remaining after removal of the casein and fat.