Lectin

Definition: Lectin

Lectin

Noun

1. Any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus.

"Lectin" is a common misspelling or typo for: lecithin, lectern, lection, pectin.

Domain	Definitions
Health	A complex molecule that has both protein and sugars. Lectins are able to bind to the outside of a cell and cause biochemical changes in it. Lectins are made by both animals and plants. (references)
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Domain	Title
Books	Advances in Lectin Research (reference) Lectin Blocking: New Strategies for the Prevention and Therapy of Tumor Metastasis and Infectious Diseases (reference) Proceedings of the Fourth Lectin Meeting, Copenhagen, June 1981 (reference) (more book examples)
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"Lectin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lectin" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	10	111,207

Expression using "lectin": mistletoe lectin. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "lectin": lectin-like, lectin-resistant.
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Language		Translations for "lectin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		lectine (lectins), phytohémoagglutinine (lectins). (various references)

German		Lektin (lectins, phytaglutins, phytohemaglutinins). (various references)

Italian		lectina (lectins, phytaglutins, phytohemaglutinins). (various references)

Pig Latin		ectinlay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "lectin": lectins. (additional references)
	Words containing "lectin": collecting, complecting, deflecting, deselecting, electing, genuflecting, inflecting, neglecting, nonreflecting, praelecting, preelecting, prelecting, preselecting, recollecting, reelecting, reflecting, selecting. (additional references)
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: client, lentic.
	Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-n-t"
	-1 letter: cline, elint, inlet, telic.
	-2 letters: ceil, celt, cent, cine, cite, clit, etic, lent, lice, lien, line, lint, lite, nice, nite, tile, tine.
	-3 letters: cel, ice, lei, let, lie, lin, lit, net, nil, nit, tel, ten, tic, tie, til, tin.
	-4 letters: el, en, et, in, it, li, ne, ti.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-n-t"
	+1 letter: centile, clients, cutline, inflect, lectins, lection, licente, linecut, stencil, tunicle.
	+2 letters: analcite, canticle, centiles, clarinet, cleating, clefting, cliental, cultigen, cutlines, denticle, electing, election, elenctic, enclitic, ethnical, flection, inflects, laitance, lecithin, lections, lenticel, leptonic, letching, limnetic, linecuts, stencils, telsonic, tunicles.
	+3 letters: acidulent, analcites, analeptic, analgetic, anciently, anelastic, anticline, antiulcer, cadential, candlelit, cantabile, canticles, cantilena, centriole, certainly, chatelain, chelating, chelation, cingulate, cisternal, citizenly, clarinets, clientage, clientele, clingiest, closeting, clunkiest, coastline, cobaltine, colleting, culminate, cultigens, denticles, elections, eliciting, elocution, enclitics, ethylenic, flections, fletching, genetical, genitalic, identical, inclement, inculcate, inculpate, inelastic, inexactly, inflected, inflicted, inflicter, inoculate, insectile, intellect, intercell, interclan, interclub, interlace, interlock, laciniate, laitances, larcenist, latencies, lecithins, lecturing, lenticels, lenticule, lunchtime, melanitic, melanotic, militance, neolithic, niccolite, princelet, reliction, relucting, schnitzel, sciential, sclerotin, sectional, selecting, selection, splenetic, stenciled, stenciler, technical, telegenic, thylacine, touchline, truckline, unethical, ventricle, vetchling.
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