A poison used against another poison, serving as an antidote.
A remedy for a specific disease or condition.
The details; particulars.
Specification
A distinguishing attribute or quality.
of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy)
similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust)
Serving to identify a particular thing (often a disease or condition), with little risk of mistaking something else for it.
Hyponyms: monospecific, multispecific, oligospecific, paucispecific
intended for, or applying to, a particular thing.
limited to a particular antibody or antigen.
a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air)
pertaining to a species, as a taxon or taxa at the rank of species.
special, distinctive or unique.
being a remedy for a particular disease on a deeper level, rather than just masking the symptoms
explicit or definite.