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clusterin

noun

Etymology

From cluster + -in.

  1. inherited from *gel-✻ — “to ball up; to clench; to amass”
  2. inherited from *klas-✻
  3. inherited from cluster
  4. inherited from cluster — “bunch, cluster, spray; compact body or mass, ball”
  5. suffixed as clusterin — “cluster + in”

Definitions

  1. A heterodimeric glycoprotein associated with apoptosis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for clusterin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA