chondrigen

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek χόνδρος (khóndros, “cartilage”) + -gen

Noun

chondrigen (uncountable)

(biochemistry) The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling in water into a gelatinous substance called chondrin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chondrigen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)