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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
foetoprotein is a noun meaning "any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer". It carries one recorded sense.
any of several antigens that occur naturally in the fetus and sometimes in adults with cancer
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for foetoprotein come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.