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vinculin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables
vin-culin
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A membrane-cytoskeletal protein in focal adhesion plaques, involved in linkage of integrin adhesion molecules to the actin cytoskeleton

Etymology

Etymology tree English vincul(um) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English vinculin From vincul(um) + -in.

Inflected Forms

vinculins (plural)

Derived Forms

antivinculin metavinculin

Questions

What does vinculin mean?
A membrane-cytoskeletal protein in focal adhesion plaques, involved in linkage of integrin adhesion molecules to the actin cytoskeleton
Where does vinculin come from?
Etymology tree English vincul(um) Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ineclip. English -in English vinculin From vincul(um) + -in.

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