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Words related to chitin

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  • chitosan

    a polysaccharide produced from chitin

  • cuticle

    Your cuticles are the skin at the base of each of your fingernails.

  • gizzard

    Also called ventriculus. a thick-walled, muscular pouch in the lower stomach of many birds and reptiles that grinds food, often with the aid of ingested stones or grit.

  • glucosamine

    an aminosugar occurring in many polysaccharides of vertebrate tissue and also as the major component of chitin.

  • hyaline

    Also, hyalin, H04/H0454500 hahy-uh-lin, ˈhaɪ ə lɪn. Biochemistry. a horny substance found in hydatid cysts, closely resembling chitin. a structureless, transparent substance found in cartilage, the eye, etc., resulting from the pathological degeneration of tissue.

  • sclerotin

    an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
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