antibody

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ body, a calque of German Antikörper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): ˈæn.tiˌbɒd.i
• (US) IPA^(key): ˈæn.təˌbɑd.i, ˈæn.tiˌbɑd.i

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: an‧ti‧bo‧dy

Noun

antibody (plural antibodies)

1. (immunology) A protein produced by B-lymphocytes that binds to a specific antigen.

Synonyms

• immunoglobulin

Derived terms

• abzyme
• agonistic monoclonal antibody
• alloantibody
• antiantibody
• anti-antibody
• antibody-mediated rejection
• antibodyome
• anti-nuclear antibody
• autoantibody
• cold antibody
• coproantibody
• donor-specific antibody
• heteroantibody
• isoantibody
• microantibody
• miniantibody
• monoantibody
• monoclonal antibody
• nanoantibody
• nanobody
• nonantibody
• peptibody
• phosphoantibody
• plantibody
• polyantibody
• polyclonal antibody
• warm antibody
• xenoantibody

 

Translations

protein that binds to a specific antigen

• Arabic: جِسْم مُضَادّ (jism muḍādd)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: а́нтитя́ло n (ántitjálo)
• Catalan: anticòs (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 抗體／抗体 (zh) (kàngtǐ)

• Czech: protilátka (cs) f
• Danish: antistof n
• Dutch: antilichaam (nl) n
• Esperanto: antikorpo, antipartiklo
• Estonian: antikeha (et)
• Finnish: vasta-aine (fi)
• French: anticorps (fr) m
• Galician: anticorpo (gl) m
• Georgian: ანტისხეული (anṭisxeuli)
• German: Antikörper (de) m
• Greek: αντίσωμα (el) n (antísoma)
• Gujarati: પ્રતિપિંડ (pratipiṇḍ)
• Hebrew: נוֹגְדָן m (nogdán)
• Hungarian: antitest (hu), ellenanyag (hu)
• Ido: antikorpo (io)
• Irish: antashubstaint f, frithábhar m, frithchoirpín m
• Italian: anticorpo (it) m
• Japanese: 抗体 (ja) (こうたい, kōtai)
• Kazakh: антидене (antidene)
• Khmer: អង្គបដិប្រាណ (ʼɑɑngkɔɔpdəpriən)
• Korean: 항체 (ko) (hangche)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دژەتەن (dijeten)

  Northern Kurdish: dijeten (ku) f

• Latin: anticorpus n
• Latvian: antiviela f
• Lithuanian: antikūnas m
• Luxembourgish: Antikierper m
• Maori: paturopi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эсрэгбие (esregbije)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠰᠡᠷᠭᠦ
  ᠪᠡᠶ᠎ᠡ (esergü bey-e)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: antistoff n

  Nynorsk: antistoff n

• Persian: پادتن (fa) (pâdtan)
• Polish: przeciwciało (pl) n, antyciało (pl) n, immunoglobulina (pl) f
• Portuguese: anticorpo (pt) m
• Romanian: anticorp (ro) m, anticorpi m pl
• Russian: антите́ло (ru) f (antitélo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀нтитије̄ло n

  Roman: àntitijēlo n

• Slovak: protilátka f
• Spanish: anticuerpo (es) m
• Swedish: antikropp (sv) c
• Telugu: ప్రతిరక్షకము (pratirakṣakamu)
• Thai: สารภูมิต้านทาน (sǎan-puum-dtâan-taan), แอนติบอดี (ɛɛn-dtì-bɔɔ-dîi)
• Turkish: antikor (tr)
• Ukrainian: антиті́ло n (antytílo)
• Vietnamese: kháng thể (vi) (抗體)
• Welsh: gwrthgorff m

Further reading

• antibody on Wikipedia.Wikipedia