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hybridoma

hybridoma noun: a hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies.

Noun

hybridoma (plural hybridomas or hybridomata)

  1. A hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies
    • Athymic (nude) mice and rats were inoculated intraperitoneally with rat-mouse hybridoma cells secreting monoclonal antibodies to rat MHC class I antigens in order to improve the yield of antibodies.1982, Saad A. Noeman, Dhirendra N.Misra, Robert J. Yankes, Heinz W. Kunz, Thomas J. Gill III, “Growth of Rat-mouse hybridomas in nude mice and nude rats”, in Journal of Immunological Methods, →DOI

Forms of hybridoma

pluralhybridomas
pluralhybridomata

Origin of hybridoma

From hybrid + -oma.

Words formed from hybridoma

Questions about hybridoma

What does hybridoma mean?
Hybridoma means a hybrid cell engineered from a lymphocyte and a tumour cell; used to generate monoclonal antibodies.
What part of speech is hybridoma?
Hybridoma is a noun.
What is the plural of hybridoma?
The plural of hybridoma is hybridomas.

Words near hybridoma in the dictionary

  1. hybridogenesis
  2. hybridogenetic
  3. hybridogenetically
  4. hybridogenic
  5. hybridogenous
  6. hybridoma
  7. hybridomas
  8. hybridomata
  9. hybridous
  10. hybrids
  11. hybris

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