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guardee

noun

Etymology

From guard + -ee.

  1. derived from *wardāną✻ — “to guard, protect”
  2. derived from *wardēn✻
  3. derived from wardo
  4. derived from garder
  5. suffixed as guardee — “guard + ee”

Definitions

  1. Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound…

    Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response

  2. guardsman

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Vish — recursive loop

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

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