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Ideotype vs Idiotype - What's the difference?

ideotype | idiotype |

As nouns the difference between ideotype and idiotype

is that ideotype is a specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality while idiotype is a characteristic shared by a group of immunoglobulin or T cell receptor molecules, based on the antigen binding specificity of their variable region.

ideotype

English

(wikipedia ideotype)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A specimen identified as belonging to a specific taxon by the author of that taxon, but collected from somewhere other than the type locality.
  • A type of concept metarepresentation that is a compound memory trace consisting of the structural information detected by humans in categorical stimuli.

    • idiotype

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (immunology) A characteristic shared by a group of immunoglobulin or T cell receptor molecules, based on the antigen binding specificity of their variable region
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=March 31, Valerie Kouskoff et al., T Cell-Independent Rescue of B Lymphocytes from Peripheral Immune Tolerance, Science citation
    • , passage=PD mice also lacked serum Ig of 3-83 specificity (3-83 idiotype ). }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 1997, date=October 10, Fotini Papavasiliou et al., V(D)J Recombination in Mature B Cells: A Mechanism for Altering Antibody Responses, Science citation
    • , passage=

    See also

    * (wikipedia "idiotype")