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Definition: Collagen |
CollagenNoun1. A fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "collagen" was first used: approximately 1865. (references) |
Etymology: Collagen \Col"la*gen\, noun. [from Greek expression ko`lla glue -gen.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Health | A polypeptide substance comprising about one third of the total protein in mammalian organisms. It is the main constituent of skin, connective tissue, and the organic substance of bones and teeth. Different forms of collagen are produced in the body but all consist of three alpha-polypeptide chains arranged in a triple helix. Collagen is differentiated from other fibrous proteins, such as elastin, by the content of proline, hydroxyproline, and hydroxylysine; by the absence of tryptophan; and particularly by the high content of polar groups which are responsible for its swelling properties. (references) |
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Screenplays | If I give you any more collagen, they'll look like they were stuck in a pool drain. (The First Wives Club; writing credit: Robert Harling) | |
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 | [Dr. Piez's lecture on collagen, its chemistry, structure, and function]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Frank Arlig : der Mann der aus dem Dunkeln liest-- : gegenwartige Zukunft, Collagen, Dia-Lesung. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Collagen gives the cornea its strength, elasticity, and form. (references) | |
It is composed of strong layered protein fibers called collagen. (references) | ||
Collagen injections are used to treat stress urinary incontinence. (references) | ||
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| "Collagen" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.55% of the time. "Collagen" is used about 163 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.55% | 159 | 24,860 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.45% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "collagen": collagen disease ♦ Collagen Diseases ♦ collagen glue. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "collagen": collagen-based, collagen-stimulated. | |
Ending with "collagen": bio-collagen. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "collagen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | хрущял (cartilage, gristle), колаген. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 胶原 (Collagenous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | collagen, kollagen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | collageen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kollageeni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collagène. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kollagen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κολλαγόνο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zselatinszerű állati fehérje, kollagén. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | collageno, collagene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | コミュニケーション科学基礎 "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | コラーゲン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ollagencay colagénio, colagénio. (various references) коллаген. (various references) colágeno. (various references) kollagen. (various references) คอลลาเจน. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | kolla. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "collagen": collagenase, collagenases, collagenous, collagens. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "collagen": tropocollagen. (additional references) | |
Words containing "collagen": tropocollagens. (additional references) | |
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"Collagen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bollingen, callagen, Calogen, chollagen, coelage, colage, colagin, coleage, collagan, collagin, collauge, collegan, collegen, collegin, Colligan, collogen, cologen, cologin, cullage, Kellgren, klagen, Rollwagen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "collagen" (pronounced kÄ"lugun) |
| 3 | -g u n | Balbriggan, bandwagon, bargain, Bogan, Brannigan, Brogan, cardigan, dragon, gorgon, hooligan, jargon, Lagan, Logan, longan, Morgan, Morgen, Mulligan, organ, pagan, shenanigan, shogun, slogan, snapdragon, Tigon, toboggan, wagon. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-l-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: allonge, collage, congeal, galleon. | |
-2 letters: clonal, gallon, glance, locale. | |
-3 letters: agone, alone, along, angel, angle, anole, canoe, cella, cello, clang, clean, clone, conga, conge, genoa, glace, glean, lance, legal, llano, local, logan, longe, ocean. | |
-4 letters: acne, aeon, agon, alec, aloe, cage, call, calo, cane, cell, clag, clan, clog, clon, coal, cola, cole, cone, egal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-l-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: allogenic, collagens, collegian. | |
+2 letters: allogeneic, collegians, enological. | |
+3 letters: collagenase, collagenous, congenially, decollating, escalloping, logicalness, nonallergic, overcalling, penological. | |
+4 letters: collagenases, concealingly, congenitally, delocalizing, ethnological, gallinaceous, genealogical, geosynclinal, hallucinogen, necrological, neurological, phenological, reallocating, unecological. | |
+5 letters: abiogenically, collieshangie, constellating, cryogenically, demonological, dendrological, deontological, egomaniacally, entomological, ergonomically, genotypically, gynecological, hallucinogens, illogicalness, logicalnesses, mineralogical, monogenically, nematological, nonallergenic, noncollegiate, numerological, paleontologic, phrenological, selenological, synecological, technological, tropocollagen, unideological, volcanologies, vulcanologies. | |
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