Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

thrombospondin

/ˌθɹɑm.boʊˈspɑn.dɪn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: throm-bospondin
IPA: /ˌθɹɑm.boʊˈspɑn.dɪn/

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of glycoproteins secreted into the extracellular matrix by various types of cell, which play a role in cellular adhesion in processes including thrombocyte aggregation, tumor metastasis, and angiogenesis.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From thrombin + respond + -in, coined in a 1972 paper by Baenziger et al., named due to its sensitivity to thrombin.https://web.archive.org/web/20060223143336/http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/247/9/2723

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˌθɹɑm.boʊˈspɑn.dɪn/
British English: /ˌθɹɒm.bə(ʊ)ˈspɒn.dɪn/

Usage

Inflected Forms

thrombospondins (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

spondin thrombin

Questions

How do you pronounce thrombospondin?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌθɹɑm.boʊˈspɑn.dɪn/.
What does thrombospondin mean?: Any of a family of glycoproteins secreted into the extracellular matrix by various types of cell, which play a role in cellular adhesion in processes including thrombocyte aggregation, tumor metastasis, and angiogenesis.
Where does thrombospondin come from?: From thrombin + respond + -in, coined in a 1972 paper by Baenziger et al., named due to its sensitivity to thrombin.https://web.archive.org/web/20060223143336/http://www.jbc.org/cgi/content/abstract/247/9/2723

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