antibody

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ body, a calque of German Antikörper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæntibɒdi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæntəbɑdi/, /ˈæntibɑdi/

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• Hyphenation: an‧ti‧bo‧dy

Noun

antibody (plural antibodies)

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

Synonyms

• immunoglobulin

Derived terms

• abzyme
• agonistic monoclonal antibody
• alloantibody
• antiantibody
• anti-antibody
• antibody-mediated rejection
• antibodyome
• anti-nuclear antibody
• autoantibody
• cold antibody
• coproantibody
• donor-specific antibody
• heteroantibody
• isoantibody
• microantibody
• miniantibody
• monoantibody
• monoclonal antibody
• nanoantibody
• nanobody
• nonantibody
• peptibody
• phosphoantibody
• plantibody
• polyantibody
• polyclonal antibody
• warm antibody
• xenoantibody

 

Translations

protein that binds to a specific antigen

Arabic: جِسْم مُضَادّ (jism muḍādd) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: а́нтитя́ло n (ántitjálo) Catalan: anticòs (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 抗體／抗体 (zh) (kàngtǐ) Czech: protilátka (cs) f Danish: antistof n Dutch: antilichaam (nl) n Esperanto: antikorpo, antipartiklo Estonian: antikeha (et) Finnish: vasta-aine (fi) French: anticorps (fr) m Galician: anticorpo (gl) m Georgian: ანტისხეული (anṭisxeuli) German: Antikörper (de) m Greek: αντίσωμα (el) n (antísoma) Gujarati: પ્રતિપિંડ (pratipiṇḍ) Hebrew: נוֹגְדָן m (nogdán) Hungarian: antitest (hu), ellenanyag (hu) Ido: antikorpo (io) Irish: antashubstaint f, frithábhar m, frithchoirpín m Italian: anticorpo (it) m Japanese: 抗体 (ja) (こうたい, kōtai) Kazakh: антидене (antidene) Khmer: អង្គបដិប្រាណ (ʼɑɑngkɔɔpdəpriən) Korean: 항체 (ko) (hangche) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دژەتەن (dijeten) Northern Kurdish: dijeten (ku) f Latin: anticorpus n Latvian: antiviela f Lithuanian: antikūnas m Luxembourgish: Antikierper m Maori: paturopi Mongolian: Cyrillic: эсрэгбие (esregbije) Mongolian: ᠡᠰᠡᠷᠭᠦ ᠪᠡᠶ᠎ᠡ (esergü bey-e) Norwegian: Bokmål: antistoff n Nynorsk: antistoff n Pannonian Rusyn: антицело n (anticelo) Persian: پادتن (fa) (pâdtan) Polish: przeciwciało (pl) n, antyciało (pl) n, immunoglobulina (pl) f Portuguese: anticorpo (pt) m Romanian: anticorp (ro) m, anticorpi m pl Russian: антите́ло (ru) f (antitélo) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: а̀нтитије̄ло n Roman: àntitijēlo n Slovak: protilátka f 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) Ukrainian: антиті́ло n (antytílo) Vietnamese: kháng thể (vi) (抗體) Welsh: gwrthgorff m

Further reading

• antibody on Wikipedia.Wikipedia