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vimentin

Today it means: Any of a group of polypeptides that polymerize to form filaments in the cytoskeleton. Full definition →

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From Latin vīmentum (“osier, withy”) + -in (“protein”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.