Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun histocompatibility_complex

1 sense of histocompatibility complex

Sense 1
histocompatibility complex -- (a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response)
       => class, category, family -- (a collection of things sharing a common attribute; "there are two classes of detergents")