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KLH

KLH is the initialism of keyhole limpet hemocyanin.

Meaning of keyhole limpet hemocyanin

Noun

keyhole limpet hemocyanin (usually uncountable, plural keyhole limpet hemocyanins)

  1. (usually) A carrier for making antigens. Because of its large size and distant relation to humans and many test animals, KLH causes a large antigenic response. When paired with a hapten, the hapten also becomes immunogenic.

Forms of KLH

pluralKLHs

Questions about KLH

What is KLH the initialism of?
KLH is the initialism of keyhole limpet hemocyanin.

Words near KLH in the dictionary

  1. klezmerlike
  2. klezmers
  3. klezmorim
  4. KLF
  5. KLFA
  6. KLH
  7. kliachite
  8. klick
  9. Klickitat
  10. Klickitat County
  11. Klickitats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: KLH (page history and authors); keyhole limpet hemocyanin (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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