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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of a class of generally insoluble proteins, such as collagen, found especially in skeletal and connective tissue.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A term suggested to designate the albuminoids which occur widely distributed in the skeletal tissues of the animal organism.

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  • noun biochemistry Any of many fibrous proteins found in connective tissue etc

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  • noun a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye

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  • It is a scleroprotein present largely in cuticular structures such as hair, nails, horn.

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