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INTERLEUKIN

Pronunciation (US):

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

1. any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system

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

• INTERLEUKIN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

lymphokine (a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages))

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