See Also: type III hypersensitivity reaction(medicine)
Immediate-type hypersensitivity(health)
immediate hypersensitivity reaction(medicine)
hypersensitivity reaction(medicine)
delayed type hypersensitivity(medicine)
tuberculin-type hypersensitivity(medicine)
Delayed type hypersensitivity (DTH)(health)
arthus-type reaction's(medicine)
hypersensitivity, immediate(medicine)
Hypersensitivity(health)

solemnize (iou) and type III hypersensitivity reaction (medicine)


solemnize (iou)



solemnize verb & noun. Also solemnise. LME.
[Old French solem(p)niser from medieval Latin solem(p)nizare, from Latin solem(p)nis: see SOLEMN, -IZE.]
A. verb.
verb trans. Dignify or honour by a ceremony or ceremonies; celebrate or commemorate (an occasion etc.) by special observances or with special formality. LME.
C. Thirlwall The king solemnized his triumph with great magnificence.
verb trans. Celebrate (a Marriage) with proper ceremonies and in due form; duly perform the ceremony of (Marriage). LME.
D. Madden The priest who had solemnized the Marriage now said the prayers.
b. verb intrans. Marry. rare. M18.
verb trans. Hold or observe with a degree of ceremony or formality. Formerly also, proclaim formally. LME.
G. Allen Dinner solemnised, we withdrew to..the balcony.
verb trans. Celebrate with praise or commendation; glorify. LME-L17.
verb trans. Make solemn; render serious or grave. E18.
J. Buchan Half the audience in tears and the rest too solemnised to shout.
verb intrans. Speak or meditate solemnly. rare. M19.
B. noun. Solemnization; solemn rite. rare (Spenser). Only in L16.
solemnizer noun (rare) L16.

type III hypersensitivity reaction (medicine)


type III hypersensitivity reaction -->
immune complex disease


An immunologic category of diseases evoked by the deposition of antigen-antibody or antigen-antibody-complement complexes on cell surfaces, with subsequent involvement of breakdown products of complement, platelets, and polymorphonuclear leukocytes, and development of vasculitis; nephritis is common. Arthus phenomenon and serum sickness are classic examples, but many Other disorders, including most of the connective tissue disease's, may belong in this immunologic category; immune complex disease's can also occur during a variety of disease's of known aetiology, such as subacute bacterial endocarditis.

See: autoimmune disease.

Synonym: immune complex disorder, type III hypersensitivity reaction.