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LIMPET

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("limpet" is a kind of...):

seasnail (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "limpet"):

common limpet; Patella vulgata (marine limpet)

Diodora apertura; Fissurella apertura; keyhole limpet (marine limpet having a conical shell with an opening at the apex)

Holonyms ("limpet" is a member of...):

class Gasteropoda; class Gastropoda; Gasteropoda; Gastropoda (snails and slugs and their relatives)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mollusk with a low conical shell

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("limpet" is a kind of...):

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

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A test consisting of a myeloma idiotype (Id)-specific protein conjugated to the immunogen keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH).

(Id MM Vaccine Test, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine composed of tumor-specific idiotype determinants derived from an individual's tumor cells which are conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin, an immunostimulant carrier protein.

(Autologous Immunoglobulin Idiotype-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell-based vaccine composed of allogeneic dendritic cells (DC), pulsed with patient-specific non-Hodgkin's lymphoma idiotype (Id) determinants conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antitumor activity.

(Dendritic Cell-Idiotype-Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine, containing epitopes of the gangliosides GD2 and GD3 conjugated with the immunostimulant keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(GD2 Lactone/GD3 Lactone-KLH Conjugate Bivalent Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cancer vaccine containing an epitope of glycosphingolipid GD2 conjugated with the immunostimulant keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(GD2-KLH Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A carbohydrate-based immunostimulant comprised of the Globo H hexasaccharide 1 (Globo H) epitope linked to the immunostimulant carrier protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Globo H-KLH Immunostimulant OPT-822, NCI Thesaurus)

A heptavalent vaccine consisting of the tumor-associated carbohydrate antigens globohexaosylceramide (globo-H), GM2, Lewis-y, MUC1-32(aa), sTn(c), TF(c), and Tn(c) conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), an immunomodulator.

(Globo-H-GM2-Lewis-y-MUC1-32(aa)-sTn(c)-TF(c)-Tn(c)-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

KLH, a natural protein isolated from the marine mollusk keyhole limpet, is an immunostimulant carrier protein.

(KLH-FITC, NCI Thesaurus)

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin is an immunogenic carrier protein that, in vivo, increases antigenic immune responses to haptens and other weak antigens such as idiotype proteins.

(Keyhole limpet hemocyanin, NCI Thesaurus)

A vaccine consisting of myeloma-specific immunoglobulin conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), an immune stimulant, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Myeloma Ig Id-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)