Meanings
nounfibrillin (countable and uncountable, plural fibrillins)
plural fibrillins
- countableuncountableA glycoprotein present in human skin, necessary for forming the elastic fibres in connective tissue.
Skin ageing, mostly caused by the effects of sun, he explained, is a result of damage between the epidermis and the dermis caused when a protein called fibrillin disappears.
2007 May 3, The Guardian, page 3
Origin
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