IGD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does IgD mean? 

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

1. one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present in blood serum in small amounts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IGD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; present in blood serum in small amounts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

IgD; immunoglobulin D

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

Ig; immune gamma globulin; immune globulin; immune serum globulin; immunoglobulin (a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response)

 Context examples 

A mature B lymphocyte that expresses IgM and IgD.

(Naive Pregerminal Center B-Lymphocyte, NCI Thesaurus)

The heavy chain of the immunoglobulin, IgD, is defective.

(Multiple Myeloma-IgD, NCI Thesaurus)

A process that involves the binding of an antigen to the transmembrane B cell receptor, an IgD molecule.

(B-Cell Receptor Binding, NCI Thesaurus)

Pathologic Ab-Ig Proteins are immunoglobulin-related (IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG, IgM antibody) glycoproteins characteristically found in patients with multiple myeloma, infectious diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and other connective tissue diseases, or systemic autoimmune diseases including systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjogren's syndrome, scleroderma, polymyositis, and mixed connective tissue disease.

(Pathologic Ab-Ig Protein, NCI Thesaurus)