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chondroitin sulfate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.02 in modern English

Syllables
chon-droit-in -sul-fate
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide. Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50,000. Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin , with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven.

Questions

What does chondroitin sulfate mean?
A colorless, amorphous, mucopolysaccharide having N-acetyl chondrosine as the repeating unit with one sulfate group per disaccharide. Typical preparations have a molecular weight of about 50,000. Preparations are sold over-the-counter, often referred to as chondroitin , with the putative ability to relieve pain in joints and assist joint cartilage growth or regeneration; such claims are, as of 2001, yet unproven.

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