dickkopf

Etymology
Borrowed from, from the fact that Dickkopf-related protein 1 , one of the dickkopf proteins, was found to be required for head formation in embryos. The word was by Andrei Glinka, Wei Wu, Hajo Delius, A. Paula Monaghan, Claudia Blumenstock, and Christof Niehrs in a 1998 article published in Nature: see the quotation.

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a family of glycoproteins that are involved in the development of the embryo.

Translations

 * Finnish: Dickkopf-proteiini, DKK-proteiini
 * French: dickkopf
 * Macedonian: