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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A glycosaminoglycan found on cell surfaces and basement membranes in mammals that regulates a wide variety of biological processes, including angiogenesis and blood coagulation.
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- noun biochemistry A
polysaccharide found, associated withprotein , in allanimal tissue ; it has aregulatory function in several biological activities
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[hepar(in) (to which it is close in structure) + –an.]
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