A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: organic, basis, bone, tissue, residue.
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The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
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