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-umab

UK/jʊm.æb/US/jəˌmæb/

-umab suffix: used to form names of monoclonal antibodies derived from a human source.

Suffix

-umab

  1. Used to form names of monoclonal antibodies derived from a human source.

Origin of -umab

From hu(man) + -mab (“monoclonal antibody”).

Questions about -umab

What does -umab mean?
-umab means used to form names of monoclonal antibodies derived from a human source.
What part of speech is -umab?
-umab is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -umab?
-umab is pronounced /jʊm.æb/ (UK).

Words near -umab in the dictionary

  1. -uide
  2. -ula
  3. -ule
  4. -ulose
  5. -um
  6. -umab
  7. -ums
  8. -uous
  9. -ure
  10. -ures
  11. -uresis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -umab (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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