CK
CK is the initialism of cytokeratin.
CK is the initialism of cytokine.
CK is the initialism of creatine kinase.
CK is the initialism of candidate key.
CK is the initialism of Crip-killer.
CK is the initialism of Calvin Klein.
Meaning of cytokeratin
Noun
cytokeratin (plural cytokeratins)
- Any of several forms of keratin found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue.
Meaning of cytokine
Noun
cytokine (plural cytokines)
- Any of various small regulatory proteins that regulate the cells of the immune system.
- Thus, in the case of viral infection, mechanisms of resistance would be threefold, namely, interferon production, the immune response, including both antibody and lymphokine production, and the generation of lymphokine-like substances by the infected cells themselves. These latter substances have...1975 July, Bigazzi PE, Yoshida T, Ward PA, Cohen S., “Production of Lymphokine-Like Factors (Cytokines) by Simian Virus 40-Infected and Simian Virus 40-Transformed Cell”, in The American Journal of...
Noun capitalized: Ck
Ck (plural Cks)
Synonyms of CK
Forms of CK
| plural | CKs |
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| plural | Cks |
Questions about CK
- What is CK the initialism of?
- CK is the initialism of cytokeratin.
- What part of speech is CK?
- CK is a noun.
- What is the plural of CK?
- The plural of CK is CKs.
Words near CK in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: CK (page history and authors); Ck (page history and authors); cytokeratin (page history and authors); cytokine (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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