Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chimeric antigen receptor

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English

Syllables: chimeric anti-gen re-cep-tor
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A receptor protein engineered to give T cells the (new) ability to attach to a specific target protein.

Inflected Forms

chimeric antigen receptors (plural)

Phrases

CAR therapy CAR T cell chimeric antigen receptor T cell

Synonyms

CAR chimeric immunoreceptor chimeric T cell receptor artificial T cell receptor

Questions

What does chimeric antigen receptor mean?: A receptor protein engineered to give T cells the (new) ability to attach to a specific target protein.

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