agglutinin

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-

Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥

Proto-Italic *gloiten

Latin glūten

Latin glūtinō

Latin agglūtinō

Latin agglūtinātuslbor.

English agglutinate

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ineclip.

English -in

English agglutinin

From agglutinate + -in.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡluːtɪnɪn/, [əˈɡluːʔn̩ɪn]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

agglutinin (countable and uncountable, plural agglutinins)

1. A substance that causes particles or cells to clump; it may be an antibody, a lectin, or otherwise.
2. (specifically) A protein found in cow's milk.

Hyponyms

• agglutin

Coordinate terms

• agglutinogen

Derived terms

• agglutinination
• antiagglutinin
• autoagglutinin
• bacterioagglutinin
• cold agglutinin disease
• erythroagglutinin
• haemagglutinin
• hemagglutinin
• isoagglutinin
• leucoagglutinin
• leukoagglutinin
• phytoagglutinin
• zooagglutinin

Translations

substance that causes cells to clump

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凝集素 (zh) (níngjísù)

• Esperanto: aglutinino
• French: agglutinine (fr) f
• Galician: aglutinina (gl) f
• German: Agglutinin n
• Indonesian: aglutinin (id)
• Italian: agglutinina (it) f
• Kyrgyz: агглютинин (agglyutinin)
• Polish: aglutynina (pl) f
• Portuguese: aglutinina f
• Russian: агглютини́н (ru) m (aggljutinín)
• Spanish: aglutinina (es) f
• Turkish: aglütinin (tr)

Further reading

• agglutinin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia