Definition of Chondroitin

1. Noun. (biochemistry) Any of a range of mucopolysaccharides, derived from galactosamine and glucuronic acid, that occur in cartilage and bone. ¹

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Definition of Chondroitin

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Medical Definition of Chondroitin

1. A mucopolysaccharide constituent of chondrin. Chemical name: Chondroitin (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chondroitin

chondrodystrophic dwarfism
chondrodystrophy
chondroectodermal
chondrofibroma
chondrogen
chondrogeneses
chondrogenesis
chondrogenic
chondroglossus
chondroglossus muscle
chondroid
chondroid syringoma
chondroid tissue
chondroitin (current term)
chondroitin 4-sulfotransferase
chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase
chondroitin abc lyase
chondroitin lyases
chondroitin sulfate B
chondroitin sulfate C
chondroitin sulfates
chondroitin sulphate
chondroitinase
chondroitinases and chondroitin lyases
chondroitins
chondroitinsulfatases
chondrology
chondrolysis

Literary usage of Chondroitin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical organic and bio-chemistry by Robert Henry Aders Plimmer (1920)
"CHITIN AND chondroitin. These polysaccharides which contain glucosamine as ... chondroitin. chondroitin or chondroitin sulphuric acid, is contained in ..."

2. A Textbook of physiological chemistry by Olof Hammarsten (1906)
"chondroitin-sulphuric acid appears as a white amorphous powder, ... Acidified solutions of alkali chondroitin-sulphates cause a precipitation when added to ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"4.55 J The organic constituents of the cartilaginous matrix are essentially represented by chondroitin-sulphuric acid as such, and its compounds with ..."

4. Biochemical Researches: Collected Reprints of Publications from the by William John Gies (1903)
"It has frequently been said that bone contains a trace of chondroitin sulphuric ... The precipitate of gelatin and chondroitin sulphuric acid is readily ..."

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