See Also: species specificity(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Specificity(medicine)
organ specificity(medicine)
biological specificity(medicine)
Substrate specificity(medicine)
antibody specificity(medicine)
Analytic specificity(health)
specificity constant(medicine)
sensitivity and specificity(medicine)

species specificity (medicine)


species specificity
Restriction of a characteristic or response to the members of one species; it usually refers to that property of the immune response which differentiates one species from another on the basis of antigen recognition, but the concept is not limited to immunology and is used loosely at levels higher than the species.