English Explanatory Dictionary

fibrillin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A glycoprotein present in human skin, necessary for forming the elastic fibres in connective tissue.

Word forms

fibrillin fibrillins

Etymology

From fibril + -in.

Derived words

fibrillinogenesis microfibrillin

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