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Definition of Hyaluronic acid

1. Noun. A viscous mucopolysaccharide found in the connective tissue space and the synovial fluid of movable joints and the humors of the eye; a cementing and protective substance.

Medical Definition of Hyaluronic acid

1. Polymer composed of repeating dimeric units of glucuronic acid and N acetyl glucosamine. May be of extremely high molecular weight (up to several million daltons) and forms the core of complex proteoglycan aggregates found in extracellular matrix. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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