The flash of a nearby lightning bolt followed by the crack of thunder can't help but make you take notice of the power of nature. And it's a good thing you get that reminder because lightning kills more people than floods, hurricanes or tornadoes.
Collagen: The principal protein of the skin, tendons, cartilage, bone, and connective tissue. Collagen is an essential part of the framework of the design of our various body tissues.ollagen: The principal protein of the skin, tendons, cartilage, bone, and connective tissue. Collagen is an essential part of the framework of the design of our various body tissues.
collagen. a fibrous structural protein that constitutes the protein of the white fibers (collagenous fibers) of skin, tendon, bone cartilage and all other connective tissues.It also occurs dispersed in a gel to provide stiffening, as in the vitreous humor of the eye. It is made of monomers of tropocollagen.ollagen fibers are composed of fibrils visible only by electron microscope. collagen footpad disorder. footpads in young German shepherd dogs become soft, tender, depigmented and ulcerated. Some dogs later develop renal amyloidosis.