Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ferritinophagy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fer-ritinophagy
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The metabolism of ferritin

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Alternatively, the turn over of ferritin by the process of ferritinophagy could be modified in the absence of CFTR [45, 46 ]."

Etymology

From ferritin + -phagy.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ferritin

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does ferritinophagy mean?: The metabolism of ferritin
Where does ferritinophagy come from?: From ferritin + -phagy.

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