immunoglobulin

Other forms of immunoglobulin

plural

immunoglobulins·

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.

Questions about immunoglobulin

What does immunoglobulin mean?

immunoglobulin means "a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response".

How many syllables are in immunoglobulin?

immunoglobulin has 6 syllables and divides as im-mu-no-glo-bu-lin 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 immunoglobulin?

Close synonyms include Ig, immune serum globulin, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin. 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 immunoglobulin a common word?

immunoglobulin 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.