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Pronunciation
Noun
ferritina f (plural ferritines)
- (biochemistry) ferritin
Further reading
Italian
Noun
ferritina f (plural ferritine)
- (biochemistry) ferritin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: fer‧ri‧ti‧na
Noun
ferritina f (plural ferritinas)
- (biochemistry) ferritin (any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Czech ferritin, coined by V. Laufberger in 1934.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /feriˈtina/
- Rhymes: -ina
- Syllabification: fe‧rri‧ti‧na
Noun
ferritina f (plural ferritinas)
- (biochemistry) ferritin
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ferritina” in Diccionario de términos médicos, Real Academia Nacional de Medicina, 2012.