word

monoclonal antibody

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

ˌmɒnəˈkloʊnəl ˈæntɪbɒdi

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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

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