antibody

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ body, a calque of German Antikörper.

Pronunciation

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Noun

antibody (plural antibodies)

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

Synonyms

immunoglobulin

Derived terms

Terms derived from antibody

Translations

protein that binds to a specific antigen

Bulgarian: а́нтитя́ло n (ántitjálo)
Catalan: anticòs m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抗體 (zh), 抗体 (zh) (kàngtǐ)
Czech: protilátka (cs) f
Danish: antistof n
Dutch: antilichaam (nl) n, antideeltje (nl) n
Esperanto: antikorpo, antipartiklo
Finnish: vasta-aine (fi)
French: anticorps (fr) m
Galician: anticorpo (gl) m
German: Antikörper (de) m
Hungarian: antitest (hu)
Ido: antikorpo (io)
Irish: antashubstaint f, frithábhar m, frithchoirpín m
Italian: anticorpo (it) m

Japanese: 抗体 (こうたい, kōtai)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: antistoff n

Nynorsk: antistoff n
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)
Turkish: antikor (tr)

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