antibody vs monoclonal antibody

monoclonal antibody vs antibody

antibody and monoclonal antibody both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
antibody	Yes	No	No	No
monoclonal antibody	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, monoclonal antibody is a hyponym of antibody; that is, monoclonal antibody is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than antibody:

antibody: any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response
monoclonal antibody: any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules

Other hyponyms of antibody include autoantibody, precipitin, ABO antibodies, Rh antibody, antitoxin, agglutinin, Forssman antibody, heterophil antibody, heterophile antibody, alloantibody, isoantibody, monoclonal, opsonin, Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin, immunoglobulin, antiphospholipid antibody, amboceptor, anaphylactic antibody, cytophilic antibody, cytotropic antibody, heteroclitic antibody.

antibody (noun)	monoclonal antibody (noun)
any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus producing an immune response	any of a class of antibodies produced in the laboratory by a single clone of cells or a cell line and consisting of identical antibody molecules

Difference between antibody and monoclonal antibody

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