AGGLUTINOGEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agglutinogen mean? 

• AGGLUTINOGEN (noun)
  The noun AGGLUTINOGEN has 1 sense:

1. any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production

  Familiarity information: AGGLUTINOGEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGLUTINOGEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("agglutinogen" is a kind of...):

antigen (any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglutinogen"):

isoagglutinogen (an antigen capable of causing the production of (or reacting with) an isoagglutinin)