fetoprotein
noun
fetoprotein is a noun meaning “Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-T-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fetoprotein is fetoproteins.
What does fetoprotein mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fetoprotein
- fetoproteins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fetoprotein?
Fetoprotein appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fetoprotein come from?
From feto- + protein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).