thrombopoietin
noun
thrombopoietin is a noun meaning “A protein produced by the liver and kidney, which regulates the production of platelets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-P-O-I-E-T-I-N, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thrombopoietin is thrombopoietins.
What does thrombopoietin mean?
noun
- 1
A protein produced by the liver and kidney, which regulates the production of platelets
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thrombopoietin
- thrombopoietins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombopoietin?
Thrombopoietin appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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 thrombopoietin come from?
From Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”) and ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker”) and -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).