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AGGLUTININ

Dictionary entry overview: What does agglutinin mean?

• AGGLUTININ (noun)
The noun AGGLUTININ has 1 sense:

1. an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen

Familiarity information: AGGLUTININ used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AGGLUTININ (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("agglutinin" is a kind of...):

antibody (any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglutinin"):

isoagglutinin (an antibody produced by one individual that causes agglutination of red blood cells in other individuals of the same species)

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