Etymology

desmocollin

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Today it means: Any of a family of glycoproteins (cadherin), found in desmosomes, responsible for intercellular adhesion. Full definition →

Ancient Greek κόλλα
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκόλλα“glue”
  2. English todaydesmocollin

From desmo- + Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -in.

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekκόλλα all →

collagencolloidcollotypecolloblastcollocytecollophoreglycocollosteocolla

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