agglutinin
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- noun
- /əˈɡluːtɪnɪn/
- Specialized
:
aglutinina
- She has a fantastic blood disease in which the agglutinin is disintegrating.
- cold agglutinin
Examples
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Among the foreign substances allowed access is wheat germ agglutinin.
Blog text (12) -
Then they found out about the blood groups, and later on about how the agglutinogens combine with certain agglutinins and not others.
Fiction book (1994) -
The agglutinin is breaking down... destroying the basic structure of the blood itself.
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There are three consequences to health as a result of this gliadin-wheat germ agglutinin two-punch effect
Blog text (12) -
Agglutinin disintegrating at an uninterrupted rate... resulting in the destruction of the cellular structure of blood.
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The donors were high responders to the vaccines and had low agglutinin titers (<80).
Academic text (1992) -
Further work by Horrocks and Kennedy showed that about 50% of goats from various herds had blood agglutinins for the micrococcus, and that 10% were excreting the organism in their milk.
Academic text (2000) -
The direct intestinal destruction of wheat germ agglutinin is made worse by a process first described in 1990 by Dr. Alessio Fasano's group at Johns Hopkins.
Blog text (12) -
The doctor explained that agglutinin is crucial for the immune system because it helps the body fight off infections.
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In laboratory tests, the presence of agglutinin can lead to the clumping of bacteria, making them easier to identify under a microscope.
Surface Forms
Morphology
agglutinin = agglutinate (semi-transparent) = agglutin + in
The formation is regular (from agglutinate + -in) and indicates a substance causing agglutination, but the suffix '-in' is a specialized biochemical/protein marker that may not be obvious to general learners.
Etymology
The word agglutinin comes from Latin parts meaning 'to' (ad-) and 'glue' (gluten). A helpful way to remember it is to think of an agglutinin as a tiny 'glue' that makes cells or bacteria stick together into clumps.