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Alt. of Gelatine

Alt. of Gelatine

A product formed from skin, white connective tissue, or bone COLLAGEN. It is used as a protein food adjuvant, plasma substitute, hemostatic, suspending agent in pharmaceutical preparations, and in the manufacturing of capsules and suppositories.

A substance found in bones, hoofs, connective tissue, etc., from which it is extracted by boiling; animal jelly. Also, gelatine.

The transparent nitrogenous product of boiled bones, skin, tissue, etc.

Animal substance that forms jelly.

An immediate animal principle. It is semitransparent, insipid, inodorous, insoluble in cold water, very soluble in hot, which it thickens, and transforms into jelly on cooling. Gelatin is a nutritious substance; and, when dissolved in a considerable quantity of water, forms an emollient fluid, much used in therapeutics, but not the most easy of digestion. Two forms of gelatin are admitted- the one glutin or gelatin proper: the other chondrin.

An albuminoid from animal tissues.

Syn.: colla taurina.

A substance obtained from white connective tissue fibrils by prolonged boiling or by the action of very dilute acids upon collagen. Gelatin is used for the preparation of capsules, pearls, etc., for which purified gelatin is used. Gelatin is also used in microscopy as a culture medium for microorganisms.

Any jellylike structure. See gelatin of Wharton.