word

monoclonal antibody

mon-oh-KLOH-nul AN-tih-bod-ee

ˌmɒnəˈkloʊnəl ˈæntɪbɒdi

Listen

Pick from 16 AI voices across American and British accents, and adjust playback speed to hear each syllable clearly. Every voice is generated once per term and cached for instant replays.

Syllable breakdown

monoclonalantibody

Dictionary meaning

a laboratory-produced antibody derived from a single clone of immune cells, designed to bind with high specificity to a single target antigen; widely used as therapeutic agents in oncology, autoimmune disease, and infectious disease — examples include trastuzumab for HER2-positive breast cancer and adalimumab for rheumatoid arthritis; also central to diagnostic testing and research assays

Something wrong? Suggest a correction