See Also: alloantigen(medicine)

Gravette (iou) and alloantigen (medicine)


Gravette (iou)



Gravette noun. Also gravette. E20.
[La Gravette, a site in SW France.]
Archaeology. Used (usu. attrib.) to designate a type of long narrow knifelike flint characteristic of the Gravettian culture (see below).
Gravettian adjective & noun (a) adjective designating or pertaining to an upper palaeolithic culture represented by remains found at La Gravette; (b) noun (a person of) the Gravettian culture: M20.

alloantigen (medicine)


alloantigen
<genetics, immunology> Individuals of a species differ in alleles (are allogeneic) and the antigenic differences will cause an immune response to allografts.

The antigens concerned are often of the histocompatibility complex and are referred to as alloantigens.