English
heteroheptamer
From hetero- + heptamer.
A compound of hetero- + heptamer
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one, whole’
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος ‘other, another, different’
English hetero-
Today it means
noun A heptamer, especially a biologically active one, derived from two or more different (but similar) monomers
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Etymograph / heteroheptamer