Medical Dictionary
constant region
noun
Medical Definition of CONSTANT REGION
: the part of the polypeptide chain of a light or heavy chain of an antibody that ends in a free carboxyl group −COOH and that is relatively constant in its sequence of amino acid residues from one antibody to another—called also constant domain; compare variable region
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