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Meaning 1
A surname.
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cavin
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noun
Meaning 2
A hollow route, adapted to cover troops and facilitate their approach to a place.
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Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 3
A type of protein that is involved in forming the caveola of many vertebrate cells.
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Topics: biochemistry, biology, chemistry, microbiology, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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History
Etymology
From French cavin (same meaning), ultimately from Latin cavus.
From cav(eola) + -in. Coined in J. Vinten et al. (2005), “Identification of a major protein on the cytosolic face of caveolae”, in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Biomembranes, volume 1717, number 1, pages 34-40: Cav-p60, a specific and ubiquitous caveolar protein, was[...]identified as similar to a GeneBank entry annotated mouse polymerase transcript release factor (PTRF)[...]The results show that in a large number of cell types, PTRF is essentially located to caveolae, and that each caveola harbors many copies of the protein. Consequently, we suggest the name Cavin [sic – not capitalised elsewhere in the article] for this protein. .