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Serum Bactericidal Test
Serum Bactericidal Test (Schlichter test, SBT): broth dilution assay measuring the highest dilution of a patient's antibiotic-treated serum that kills over 99.9% of the infecting organism; used to monitor endocarditis and osteomyelitis therapy.
Serum Institute of India
Serum Institute of India (SII), Pune, founded 1966 by Cyrus Poonawalla, is the world's largest vaccine maker by doses (1.5+ billion/year, 170 countries); made Covishield (1.7 billion doses) and R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine.
Serum protein electrophoresis
Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP) is a blood test separating serum proteins by charge, size, and shape into albumin and alpha, beta, and gamma globulin fractions, used to detect multiple myeloma, MGUS, liver, kidney, and inflammatory disorders.
Serum sickness
Serum sickness, also called Die Serumkrankheit, is a type III immune-complex hypersensitivity reaction causing fever, rash, and arthralgias 1-2 weeks after heterologous proteins, antivenoms, vaccines, or monoclonal antibodies; distinct from serum sickness-like reaction.
Serum-ascites albumin gradient
Serum-ascites albumin gradient (SAAG), serum albumin minus ascitic fluid albumin; a laboratory test for ascites where ≥1.1 g/dL indicates portal hypertension and <1.1 g/dL suggests malignancy, tuberculosis, or other causes.
Serum-Free Culture Media
Serum-free culture media (SFM) are cell culture media without serum, using defined nutrients and supplements like insulin and transferrin instead. Distinct from protein-free and chemically defined media; standard in biopharma, vaccines, and cell therapy.
Serup
Serup is a reconstructed race board game of the Diegueño people of California, played with four marked stick dice on a trapezoidal board of holes; its rules were never recorded, and it is cataloged as DLP.Games.1139.
Serval
Serval (Leptailurus serval), a medium-sized spotted African wild cat with long legs and huge ears, a wetland rodent hunter; IUCN Least Concern, CITES Appendix II, related to caracal and African golden cat.
Servamp
Servamp (サーヴァンプ) is a vampire manga by Strike Tanaka, serialized in Monthly Comic Gene 2011–2024 (24 volumes), adapted into a 2016 TV anime, the 2018 film Alice in the Garden, and a 2020 stage play.
Servando Carrasco
Servando Carrasco, born 1988 in Coronado, California, is a retired Mexican-American defensive midfielder; 27th pick of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft who played for Seattle, Houston, Sporting KC, Orlando City, and LA Galaxy, and is Alex Morgan's husband.
Servando Teresa de Mier
Servando Teresa de Mier, born José Servando Teresa de Mier Noriega y Guerra, was a Dominican friar and political writer from Monterrey, New Spain, best known for his subversive 1794 sermon on the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Servanne
Servanne, ancient site at Mouriès, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (BAtlas 15 D2), a Pleiades-recorded villa on the southern Alpilles piedmont; Iron Age habitat and necropolis excavated in 1988 before golf-course construction.
Servant (TV series)
Servant is an Apple TV+ psychological horror series created by Tony Basgallop and executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, running 40 episodes over four seasons (2019-2023) about the Turners, a Philadelphia couple whose nanny Leanne cares for a reborn doll after their baby Jericho's death.
Servant Girl Annihilator
Servant Girl Annihilator, also called the Austin Axe Murderer, is the unidentified serial killer who murdered eight people in Austin, Texas, between December 1884 and Christmas Eve 1885, predating Jack the Ripper; the case was never solved.
Servant leadership
Servant leadership is an approach in which the leader's first commitment is to serve and develop the people being led, coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970.
Servant of God
Servant of God (Servus Dei) is the official Catholic title for a person whose cause for beatification and canonization has begun, the first of four stages toward sainthood.
Servant of the Lake
Servant of the Lake (Rusty Lake, 2026) is a single-player point-and-click puzzle adventure set at the Vanderboom estate decades before Rusty Lake: Roots, released August 13, 2026 on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.
Servant of the People (Слуга народу)
Servant of the People (Слуга народу) is Volodymyr Zelensky's Ukrainian political party, founded 2017 and named after his TV sitcom; it won Ukraine's first single-party parliamentary majority in July 2019 with 254 seats and 43.16% of the party-list vote.
Servants of India Society
The Servants of India Society (भारत सेवक समाज) is an Indian public-service organization founded by nationalist leader Gopal Krishna Gokhale in Pune in 1905 to train full-time workers for India's service.
Servara Mound
Servara Mound is a centrally protected ASI monument (entry 3352) at Servara, Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh: two settlement mounds (kheras) named Khorkali and Jalapar, managed by the ASI Meerut Circle.
Serve (tennis)
Serve (tennis): the stroke that starts each point, hit overhand or underarm into the diagonal service box. Covers ITF rules 16-22, flat, slice, and kick serve types, biomechanics, injury risk, and serve dominance in modern tennis.
Serve Robotics
Serve Robotics is an American autonomous robotics company spun out of Postmates by Uber in 2021, operating over 2,000 Level 4 sidewalk delivery robots for Uber Eats and DoorDash.
SERVE trial
SERVE trial: multicenter double-blind randomized placebo-controlled Swiss-Austrian trial (NCT03049540) of tadalafil 20 mg daily for 3 years in 100 adults with systemic right ventricles; no significant improvement in RV end-systolic volume, ejection fraction, exercise capacity, or NT-proBNP versus placebo.
Serve-and-volley
Serve-and-volley is a tennis style in which the server rushes to the net to finish points with a volley, dominant on grass until the 2000s.
Server (computing)
A server, also called a computer server, is a computer or program that provides shared services like files, email, and web pages to clients over a network.
Server Message Block
Server Message Block (SMB) is a network file sharing protocol that lets clients read, create, and update files and printers on remote servers over a network.
Server Name Indication
Server Name Indication (SNI) is a TLS extension that lets a client state the hostname it wants, so one server can host several HTTPS sites on one IP address.
Server room
A server room is a dedicated, environmentally controlled space housing computer servers, storage, and network equipment for an organization, smaller than a data center but requiring similar cooling, power, security, and fire protection.
Server Sundaram (சர்வர் சுந்தரம்)
Server Sundaram (சர்வர் சுந்தரம்) is a 1964 Tamil comedy-drama directed by Krishnan–Panju, starring Nagesh as a hotel waiter who becomes an actor; written by K. Balachander from his 1963 play, music by Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy, Best Tamil Film at the 12th National Film Awards; distinct from the delayed Santhanam remake.
Server System Infrastructure
Server System Infrastructure (SSI) is a server-industry initiative announced in 1998 and led by Intel, which developed open specifications for server power supplies and electronics bay designs.