Word.ws English Dictionary

heterolysin

heterolysin noun: a haemolysin produced in the bloodstream when blood cells of a different species are introduced.

Noun

heterolysin (plural heterolysins)

  1. A haemolysin produced in the bloodstream when blood cells of a different species are introduced

Forms of heterolysin

pluralheterolysins

Origin of heterolysin

From hetero- + lysin.

Questions about heterolysin

What does heterolysin mean?
Heterolysin means a haemolysin produced in the bloodstream when blood cells of a different species are introduced.
What part of speech is heterolysin?
Heterolysin is a noun.
What is the plural of heterolysin?
The plural of heterolysin is heterolysins.

Words near heterolysin in the dictionary

  1. heterologue
  2. heterologues
  3. heterologus
  4. heterology
  5. heterolyses
  6. heterolysin
  7. heterolysins
  8. heterolysis
  9. heterolysosome
  10. heterolysosomes
  11. heterolytic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: heterolysin (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: “heterolysin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heterolysin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.