See Also: hypervariable region(medicine)
Hypervariable regions(health)
hypervariable regions(medicine)
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medium term (oh) and hypervariable region (medicine)


medium term (oh)



n [singular]
the period of time a few weeks or months ahead of the present
-see also short-term short-term, long-term long-term in the medium term
::The company's prospects look good in the medium term.
::medium term investments

hypervariable region (medicine)


hypervariable region
<immunology> Those regions of the heavy or light chains of immunoglobulins in which there is considerable sequence diversity within that set of immunoglobulins in a single individual. These regions specify the antigen affinity of each antibody.