sonic hedgehog

Etymology
Named after the video game character, in reference to the hedgehog signalling pathway, itself from (🇨🇬 ).

Noun

 * 1)  A morphogenic protein that controls cell division of adult stem cells and has been implicated in the development of some cancers.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 音猬因子
 * Finnish: sonic hedgehog
 * German: Sonic hedgehog
 * Japanese: ソニック・ヘッジホッグ

Noun

 * 1) sonic hedgehog

Declension
This word is usually not inflected, as it would be difficult to fit into any Finnish declension category. If there's a need to inflect sonic hedgehog, it is combined with something inflectable such as or, e.g. sonic hedgehog -molekyyli.