"aggrecan" meaning in English

See aggrecan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: aggrecans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} aggrecan (countable and uncountable, plural aggrecans)
  1. (biochemistry) A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage Wikipedia link: aggrecan Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Proteins Derived forms: aggrecanase, aggrecanolysis Related terms: aggrecanopathy Translations (a proteoglycan that is a major component of cartilage): agrecano [masculine] (Portuguese)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for aggrecan meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aggrecans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "aggrecan (countable and uncountable, plural aggrecans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Proteins",
          "orig": "en:Proteins",
          "parents": [
            "Biomolecules",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Body parts",
            "Organic compounds",
            "Biology",
            "Chemistry",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Matter",
            "Sciences",
            "Human",
            "Medicine",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "aggrecanase"
        },
        {
          "word": "aggrecanolysis"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage"
      ],
      "id": "en-aggrecan-en-noun-4MzmuVbm",
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "proteoglycan",
          "proteoglycan"
        ],
        [
          "chondroitin",
          "chondroitin"
        ],
        [
          "sulfate",
          "sulfate"
        ],
        [
          "cartilage",
          "cartilage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage"
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "aggrecanopathy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "a proteoglycan that is a major component of cartilage",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "agrecano"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "aggrecan"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "aggrecan"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "aggrecanase"
    },
    {
      "word": "aggrecanolysis"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "aggrecans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "aggrecan (countable and uncountable, plural aggrecans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "aggrecanopathy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Proteins"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biochemistry",
          "biochemistry"
        ],
        [
          "proteoglycan",
          "proteoglycan"
        ],
        [
          "chondroitin",
          "chondroitin"
        ],
        [
          "sulfate",
          "sulfate"
        ],
        [
          "cartilage",
          "cartilage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biochemistry) A proteoglycan, containing chondroitin sulfate, that is a major component of cartilage"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biochemistry",
        "biology",
        "chemistry",
        "microbiology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "aggrecan"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "a proteoglycan that is a major component of cartilage",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "agrecano"
    }
  ],
  "word": "aggrecan"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (bb24e0f and c7ea76d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.