AGGLUTININ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agglutinin mean? 

• AGGLUTININ (noun)
  The noun AGGLUTININ has 1 sense:

1. an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen

  Familiarity information: AGGLUTININ used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGLUTININ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("agglutinin" is a kind of...):

antibody (any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglutinin"):

isoagglutinin (an antibody produced by one individual that causes agglutination of red blood cells in other individuals of the same species)

 Context examples 

Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.

(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)