prozone
English edit
Noun edit
prozone (plural prozones)
- (immunology) The range of antibody concentrations within which reaction is inhibited.
- (anatomy) The anterior zone of the pronotum in an insect of the family Acrididae or Gryllidae.
- Coordinate term: metazone
- 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:
- Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.