See Also: preprocollagen(medicine)

viatical (iou) and preprocollagen (medicine)


viatical (iou)



viatical adjective. M19.
[from Latin viaticus pertaining to a road or journey, formed as VIA noun: see -ATIC, -AL1.]
Of or pertaining to a way or road; Botany growing by roadsides.
Special collocations: viatical settlement an arrangement whereby a person with a terminal illness sells his or her life insurance policy to a third party for less than its mature value, in order to benefit from the proceeds while alive.

preprocollagen (medicine)


preprocollagen


The precursor of collagen that is synthesised on ribosomes; procollagen with a leader or signal sequence that directs the polypeptide chain into the vesicular space of the endoplasmic reticulum.