No new information in Greencastle woman's disappearance. No new information in Greencastle woman's disappearanceThere was still no word Tuesday night on the whereabouts of Julie McCutcheon, the Greencastle woman who went missing a week ago while house-sitting for a friend in Gettysburg.
Medical Definition of ANTIGEN. : any substance (as an immunogen or a hapten) foreign to the body that evokes an immune response either alone or after forming a complex with a larger molecule (as a protein) and that is capable of binding with a product (as an antibody or T cell) of the immune response.â anÂ·tiÂ·genÂ·ic \Ëan-ti-Ëje-nik\ adjective.edical Definition of ANTIGEN. : any substance (as an immunogen or a hapten) foreign to the body that evokes an immune response either alone or after forming a complex with a larger molecule (as a protein) and that is capable of binding with a product (as an antibody or T cell) of the immune response.
Antigen is the generic term for substances that cause the body to produce an immune response and to produce antibodies. Tdap contains a few different pertussis antigens which have been detoxified. Much like the toxoids, the detoxified antigens will not cause the actual disease but can stimulate an immune response.