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

1 sense of immune globulin

Sense 1
immunoglobulin, Ig, immune serum globulin, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin -- (a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response)
       => gamma globulin, human gamma globulin -- (a plasma protein containing the immunoglobulins that are responsible for immune responses)
       => antibody -- (any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response)