Search Result for "histocompatibility complex":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

histocompatibility complex n 1: 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