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- German · derived fromtoll“great, amazing”
- English todaytoll gene
From German toll (“great, amazing”), as exclaimed by one of the researchers who studied these genes.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
toll gene
Today it means: Any of a class of genes that encode members of the toll-like receptor class of proteins, involved in the immune system. Full definition →
German toll