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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The smaller of the two types of polypeptide chains in immunoglobulins, consisting of an antigen-binding portion with a variable amino acid sequence, and a constant region with an amino acid sequence that is relatively unchanging.

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