Associations to the word «Immunoglobulin»

Wiktionary

IMMUNOGLOBULIN, noun. (protein) (immunology) Any of the glycoproteins in blood serum that respond to invasion by foreign antigens and that protect the host by removing pathogens; an antibody.
IMMUNOGLOBULIN E, noun. (immunology) A class of antibody (or immunoglobulin "isotype") found in mammals.

Dictionary definition

IMMUNOGLOBULIN, noun. A class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope