chondrinn.
/ˈkɒndrɪn/ Chemistry.
A substance resembling gelatin, obtained from the cellular cartilages by boiling them in water. ‘When dried, it is a hard, horny, diaphanous substance, which softens to a jelly in cold water, and dissolves completely in boiling water’. (Watts.)
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1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 214 Acetic acid..does not occasion any precipitate in a solution of albumen or gelatine, though it does in a solution of chondrin.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. §264 It is only in the pure cellular cartilages..that Chondrine occurs.
1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 290 The Cornea yields chondrin on boiling, unlike the sclerotic, which yields gelatine.
Derivatives
chonˈdrinogen n. = chondrigen n.
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1872 J. L. W. Thudichum Man. Chem. Physiol. 45 Cartilage contains peculiar cells and chondrinogen.
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ˈchondrinous adj. consisting of cartilage ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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