Word.ws English Dictionary

ferratin

ferratin is the obsolete spelling of ferritin.

Meaning of ferritin

Noun

ferritin (plural ferritins)

  1. Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits; the key protein of intracellular iron storage.

Questions about ferratin

What is ferratin the obsolete spelling of?
Ferratin is the obsolete spelling of ferritin.

Words near ferratin in the dictionary

  1. Ferrata cells
  2. ferratas
  3. ferrate
  4. ferrated
  5. ferrates
  6. ferratin
  7. Ferraz
  8. Ferrazes
  9. Ferre
  10. Ferrebee
  11. Ferrebees

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ferratin (page history and authors); ferritin (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: “ferratin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ferratin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.