Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chinese hamster ovary cell

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: chi-ne-se ham-ster o-vary -cell
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

6

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A family of immortalized cell lines derived from the epithelial cells of the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins.

Inflected Forms

Chinese hamster ovary cells (plural)

Questions

What does chinese hamster ovary cell mean?: A family of immortalized cell lines derived from the epithelial cells of the ovary of the Chinese hamster, often used in biological and medical research and commercially in the production of recombinant therapeutic proteins.

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