Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leishporin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: leish-porin
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A porin isolated from species of Leishmania

Example Sentences

"Based on our findings that Leishmania have a pore-forming cytolysin that we call leishporin, we have been proposing that amastigotes egress from the macrophages is mediated by pore formation on the parasitophorous vacuole and the plasma membrane."

Etymology

Blend of taxonomic name Leishmania + porin.

Inflected Forms

leishporins (plural)

Questions

What does leishporin mean?: A porin isolated from species of Leishmania
Where does leishporin come from?: Blend of taxonomic name Leishmania + porin.

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