guardee

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any protein (involved in an immune system) that when modified by a pathogen becomes bound by a guard protein, precipitating the immune response
noun
  1. guardsman

Word forms

guardee guardees

Etymology

From guard + -ee.

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