Agglutinin
/əˈɡluːtɪnɪn/noun
A substance, especially an antibody, that causes particles or cells to clump together.
Did you know?Agglutinin was named from Latin roots meaning “to glue together,” a reminder that even modern biology borrowed its language from ancient ideas of adhesion and binding.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*glei-
“to stick together, be viscous”
Latin
Latin
glūtināre
“to glue, stick together”
Latin
Latin
glūtinum
“glue”
Late Latin / Scientific Latin
Latin
agglutināre
“to glue to, fasten together”
19th Century
English
agglutinin
“a substance that causes cells or particles to clump together”