The Only Use of
avidity
in
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centred on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.†
p. 91.6
Definition:
a measure of the strength of binding of the antibody-antigen complex