Chem. (Formerly -ine.) [f. Gr. χόνδρ-ος cartilage + -IN. Cf. F. chondrine.] A substance resembling gelatin, obtained from the cellular cartilages by boiling them in water. ‘When dried, it is a hard, horny, diaphanous substance, which softens to a jelly in cold water, and dissolves completely in boiling water.’ (Watts.)
1838. T. Thomson, Chem. Org. Bodies, 214. It [Acetic acid] does not occasion any precipitate in a solution of albumen or gelatine, though it does in a solution of chondrin.
1851. Carpenter, Man. Phys., § 264. It is only in the pure cellular cartilages … that Chondrine occurs.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 290. The cornea yields chondrin on boiling, unlike the sclerotic, which yields gelatine.
