Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homocytotropic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mo-cy-totrop-ic
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Affecting cells of the species in which it originated.

Example Sentences

"The recent observation that a heat labile human immunoglobulin, IgE , could mediate the release of both histamine and SRS-Aᵐᵒⁿᵏᵉʸ from primate lung slices (Ishizaka et al., 1969), prompted a re-examination of the biologic activity of rat heat labile homocytotropic antibody."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- English cytotropic English homocytotropic From homo- + cytotropic.

Frequently Paired Words

heterocytotropic

Questions

What does homocytotropic mean?: Affecting cells of the species in which it originated.
Where does homocytotropic come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Hellenic *homós Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der. English homo- English cytotropic English homocytotropic From homo- + cytotropic.

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