collagenin a sentence
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A collagen injection was used to smooth wrinkles.
collagen = the main protein of animal connective tissue
- If So-and-so's blood pressure was high, she should be given hawthorn to stabilize the collagen and dilate the coronary blood vessels.† (source)
- She was getting little creases on either side of her mouth, despite the collagen injections; her biological clock was ticking, as she was fond of pointing out.† (source)
- The collagen that binds us into the United States of America.† (source)
- Ebola attacks connective tissue with particular ferocity; it multiplies in collagen, the chief constituent protein of the tissue that holds the organs together.† (source)
- Dumbo was back in the doorway, slack-jawed, red-eared, and in the grasp of a tall girl with a cascade of honey-blond hair and striking Norwegian-model-type features, piercing blue eyes, full, pouty, collagen-packed lips, and the willowy figure of a runway fashion princess.† (source)
- Huge eyes that looked black against her white skin, a sharp nose, a wide mouth, sexily full that may have owned its sensuality to collagen injections.† (source)
- Stronger than steel, four times stronger than reinforced concrete, thanks to a mineral called calcium phosphate and a protein called collagen.† (source)
- The skin is robbed of saline solutions, the tissues sink, and the collagen becomes alas!† (source)
- In this way, collagen in the body turns to mush, and the underlayers of the skin die and liquefy.† (source)
- As we age, muscles grow tough, because of increased collagen in the connective tissue—that's the glue, you see, the chief component of bones and cartilage.† (source)