antiidiotype

antiidiotype
an·ti·id·io·type .an-tī-'id-ē-ə-.tīp n an antibody that treats another antibody as an antigen and suppresses its immunoreactivity
an·ti·id·io·typ·ic -.id-ē-ə-'tip-ik adj

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