Both Uses of
avidity
in
Oliver Twist
- I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine.†
Chpt 4 *
- Close beside him stood Charlotte, opening oysters from a barrel: which Mr. Claypole condescended to swallow, with remarkable avidity.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(avidity as in: high avidity T cells) a measure of the strength of binding of the antibody-antigen complex