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tetraspan

tetraspan noun: any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains.

Noun

tetraspan (plural tetraspans)

  1. Any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains

Forms of tetraspan

pluraltetraspans

Origin of tetraspan

From tetra- + span.

Questions about tetraspan

What does tetraspan mean?
Tetraspan means any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains.
What part of speech is tetraspan?
Tetraspan is a noun.
What is the plural of tetraspan?
The plural of tetraspan is tetraspans.

Words near tetraspan in the dictionary

  1. tetrasomic
  2. tetrasomics
  3. tetrasomies
  4. tetrasomy
  5. tetraspace
  6. tetraspan
  7. tetraspanin
  8. tetraspanins
  9. tetraspans
  10. tetraspastic
  11. tetraspasticity

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