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

1 sense of interleukin

Sense 1
interleukin -- (any of several lymphokines that promote macrophages and killer T cells and B cells and other components of the immune system)
       => lymphokine -- (a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages))