Both Uses of
avidity
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Madame de Villefort listened with avidity to these appalling maxims and horrible paradoxes, delivered by the count with that ironical simplicity which was peculiar to him.†
Chpt 51-52 *
- At twelve o'clock the mourning-coaches rolled into the paved court, and the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore was filled with a crowd of idlers, equally pleased to witness the festivities or the mourning of the rich, and who rush with the same avidity to a funeral procession as to the marriage of a duchess.†
Chpt 103-104
Definition:
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(avidity as in: high avidity T cells) a measure of the strength of binding of the antibody-antigen complex