Word Meanings - SERALBUMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serum albumin.

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• ALBUMINIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.
• ALBUMINOSIS
  A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.
• SERUM-THERAPY
  The treatment of disease by the injection of blood serum from immune animals.
• ALBUMIN
  A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in
• ALBUMINOIDAL
  Of the nature of an albuminoid.
• ALBUMINIFEROUS
  Supplying albumen.
• SERUM
  The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc. A thin watery fluid, containing more or less albumin, secreted by the serous membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid
• ALBUMININ
  The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.
• ALBUMINURIA
  A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.
• ALBUMINATE
  A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin, and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed by the union of albumin with another substance.
• ALBUMINOID
  Resembling albumin. -- n.
• ALBUMINOSE
  A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.
• ALBUMINIPAROUS
  Producing albumin.
• ALBUMINOUS; ALBUMINOSE
  Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.
• HEMIALBUMIN
  See HEMIALBUMOSE
• TOXALBUMIN
  Any of a class of toxic substances of protein nature; a toxin.
• PARALBUMIN
  A proteidlike body found in the fluid from ovarian cysts and elsewhere. It is generally associated with a substance related to, if not identical with, glycogen.
• OVALBUMIN; OVALBUMEN
  The albumin from white of eggs; egg albumin; -- in distinction from serum albumin. See Albumin. (more info) Chem.)
• EXALBUMINOUS
  Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.
• METALBUMIN
  A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.