Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

complementoid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-ple-men-toid
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin.

Countable; Dated; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We have seen that the evidence for the existence of complementoid is supplied by its preventing complement from combining with certain molecules […]"
"The change of toxins into toxoids is paralleled by the change of complements into complementoids."

Etymology

From complement + -oid.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: complement

Usage

Inflected Forms

complementoids (plural)

Questions

What does complementoid mean?: An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin.
Where does complementoid come from?: From complement + -oid.

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