agglutin

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Etymology[edit]

Rare enough to suggest that it may have originated as a haplologic misconstruction of its hypernym, agglutinin.

Noun[edit]

agglutin (plural agglutins)

  1. (immunology, medicine, rare) Any antibody that causes agglutination of cells.

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