See Also: Healy, T(imothy) M(ichael)(encyclopedia)
antibody specificity(medicine)
Coetzee, J(ohn) M(ichael)(encyclopedia)
Cohan, George M(ichael)(encyclopedia)
Schwab, Charles M(ichael)(encyclopedia)
Specificity(medicine)
organ specificity(medicine)
diagnostic specificity(medicine)
specificity constant(medicine)
Analytic specificity(health)

Healy, T(imothy) M(ichael) (sh) and antibody specificity (medicine)


Healy, T(imothy) M(ichael) (sh)




born May 17, 1855, Bantry, County Cork, Ire.
died March 26, 1931, Dublin

Irish political leader.

Soon after he entered Parliament in 1880, the "Healy Clause" of the Land Act of 1881, protecting tenant farmers' agrarian improvements from rent increases, made him popular in Ireland. Long associated with Charles Stewart Parnell, he broke with him in 1886. He grew dissatisfied with both the Liberals and the Irish Nationalists in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, and after 1917 he supported Sinn Fein. He was supported by both the British and Irish ministries as governor-General (1922-28) of the new Irish Free State.


antibody specificity (medicine)


antibody specificity


The property of antibodies which enables them to react with some antigenic determinants and not with others. Specificity is dependent on chemical composition, physical forces, and molecular structure at the binding site.