plasminogen

1. 1.

   an inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents

   Broaderplasmin

Other forms of plasminogen

plural

plasminogens·

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 plasminogen

What does plasminogen mean?

plasminogen means "an inactive form of plasmin that occurs in plasma and is converted to plasmin by organic solvents".

How many syllables are in plasminogen?

plasminogen has 4 syllables: plas-min-o-gen. The stress falls on "min". In IPA it is /ˌplæzˈmɪnədʒɪn/.

Is plasminogen a common word?

plasminogen 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.