antibody

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ body, a calque of German Antikörper.

Pronunciation

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Noun

antibody (plural antibodies)

1. (immunology) A protein produced by B-lymphocytes that binds to a specific antigen.

Synonyms

• immunoglobulin

Derived terms

• alloantibody
• antiantibody
• autoantibody
• heteroantibody
• monoclonal antibody
• nanoantibody
• phosphoantibody
• plantibody
• polyclonal antibody
• xenoantibody

 

Translations

protein that binds to a specific antigen

• Bulgarian: а́нтитя́ло n (ántitjálo)
• Catalan: anticòs m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抗體／抗体 (zh) (kàngtǐ), 抗体 (zh) (kàngtǐ)

• Czech: protilátka (cs) f
• Danish: antistof n
• Dutch: antilichaam (nl) n
• Esperanto: antikorpo, antipartiklo
• Finnish: vasta-aine (fi)
• French: anticorps (fr) m
• Galician: anticorpo (gl) m
• German: Antikörper (de) m
• Gujarati: પ્રતિપિંડ (pratipiṇḍ)
• Hungarian: antitest (hu)
• Ido: antikorpo (io)
• Irish: antashubstaint f, frithábhar m, frithchoirpín m
• Italian: anticorpo (it) m
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• Japanese: 抗体 (こうたい, kōtai)
• Kurdish:
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antistoff n

  Nynorsk: antistoff n

• Persian: پادتن (fa) (pādtan, pāttan)
• Polish: przeciwciało (pl) n
• Portuguese: anticorpo (pt) m
• Romanian: anticorp (ro) m, anticorpi m pl
• Russian: антите́ло (ru) f (antitélo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀нтитије̄ло n

  Roman: àntitijēlo n

• Spanish: anticuerpo (es) m
• Swedish: antikropp (sv) c
• Telugu: ప్రతిరక్షకము (pratirakṣakamu)
• Thai: สารภูมิต้านทาน (sǎan-puum-dtâan-taan), แอนติบอดี (ɛɛn-dtì-bɔɔ-dîi)
• Turkish: antikor (tr)
• Vietnamese: kháng thể (vi)