HYDROXYPROLINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydroxyproline mean? 

• HYDROXYPROLINE (noun)
  The noun HYDROXYPROLINE has 1 sense:

1. a crystalline amino acid obtained from gelatin or collagen

  Familiarity information: HYDROXYPROLINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROXYPROLINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A crystalline amino acid obtained from gelatin or collagen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("hydroxyproline" is a kind of...):

amino acid; aminoalkanoic acid (organic compounds containing an amino group and a carboxylic acid group)

 Context examples 

The determination of the amount of hydroxyproline present in a sample.

(Hydroxyproline Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

Collagen is differentiated from other fibrous proteins by its content of proline, hydroxyproline, and hydroxylysine; by its absence of tryptophan; and by its high content of polar groups.

(Collagen Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the total hydroxyproline in a biological specimen.

(Hydroxyproline Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Hydroxyproline residues likely promote the triple helical fibrous structure of collagen.

(Collagen Gene, NCI Thesaurus)