chondroitic, a.
(kɒndrəʊˈɪtɪk)
[Irreg., f. chondro- + -itic (see -ite1 4 b).]
chondroitic acid [tr. G. chrondroitsäure (C. Boedeker 1861, in Ann. d. Chemie CXVII. 111)], (see quot. 1944).
| 1885 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XLVIII. 405 Bödeker found that on boiling cartilage with mineral acid, a substance was obtained, which he named chondroitic acid... The author made four preparations of this so-called chondroitic acid. 1895 [see next]. 1944 Hackh's Chem. Dict. (ed. 3) 197/2 Chondroitic acid, C18H27O17NS..An acid of cartilage, found in traces in urine; splits into chondroitin. |