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say it: in-tur-FER-ahn
interferon is a noun meaning "an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus". It is pronounced /ˌɪntɚˈfɛɹɑn/ — in-tur-FER-ahn. It carries one recorded sense.
an antiviral protein produced by cells that have been invaded by a virus; inhibits replication of the virus
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 interferon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.