foetoprotein

Questions about foetoprotein

What does foetoprotein mean?

foetoprotein means "any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer".

How many syllables are in foetoprotein?

foetoprotein has 5 syllables and divides as fo-e-to-pro-tein under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for foetoprotein?

Close synonyms include fetoprotein. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foetoprotein a common word?

foetoprotein is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.