Word.ws English Dictionary

cell-adhesion molecule

cell-adhesion molecule noun: any of a class of cell-surface proteins, typically glycoproteins, which enable and/or stabilize physical connections between cells or between a cell and an acellular material, such as an extracellular matrix.

Noun

cell-adhesion molecule (plural cell-adhesion molecules)

  1. Any of a class of cell-surface proteins, typically glycoproteins, which enable and/or stabilize physical connections between cells or between a cell and an acellular material, such as an extracellular matrix
    • In order for cells in tissues to function in an integrated manner, specialized junctions consisting of clustered cell-adhesion molecules are essential.2000, Lodish, et al., Molecular Cell Biology, W H Freeman and Company, "Section 22.1 Cell-Cell Adhesion and Communication"

Forms of cell-adhesion molecule

pluralcell-adhesion molecules

Questions about cell-adhesion molecule

What does cell-adhesion molecule mean?
Cell-adhesion molecule means any of a class of cell-surface proteins, typically glycoproteins, which enable and/or stabilize physical connections between cells or between a cell and an acellular material, such as an extracellular matrix.
What part of speech is cell-adhesion molecule?
Cell-adhesion molecule is a noun.
What is the plural of cell-adhesion molecule?
The plural of cell-adhesion molecule is cell-adhesion molecules.

Words near cell-adhesion molecule in the dictionary

  1. cell types
  2. cell up
  3. cell wall
  4. cell walls
  5. cell yell
  6. cell-adhesion molecule
  7. cell-adhesion molecules
  8. cell-cell junction
  9. cell-free
  10. cell-mediated immune response
  11. cell-mediated immune responses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cell-adhesion molecule (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cell-adhesion molecule.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cell-adhesion_molecule. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.