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Definition of Albumen

1. Noun. A simple water-soluble protein found in many animal tissues and liquids.

2. Noun. The white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water. "She separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"

Definition of Albumen

1. n. The white of an egg.

Definition of Albumen

1. Noun. The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Albumen

1. the white of an egg [n -S]

Medical Definition of Albumen

1. 1. The white of an egg. 2. Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc. 3. Same as Albumin. Origin: L, fr. Albus white. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Albumen

albondigas albonoursin albrechtschraufite albs albuca albuginea albugineotomy albugineous albugo albugos

albularyo albularyos album album graecum album track albumen (current term) albumenization albumenize albumenized albumenizes

albumenizing albumenoid albumens albumin albumin-globulin ratio albumin A albumin B albumin Ghent albumin Mexico albumin Naskapi

Literary usage of Albumen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1883)
"The Relation between Serum-albumen and Globulin in Albuminuria. ... He finds that ascitic fluid contains less albumen than the serum of blood. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"On the Artificial Production of Fibrin from albumen." By ALFRED HUTCHISON SMEE, Junior, Student of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Communicated by WS SAVORY, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"It is formed out of and at the expense of the existing albumen, and composes the white corpuscles of the lymph- ana blood- and ..."

4. American Druggist (1890)
"Notes on albumen and Peptone.1" 1. Native egg albumen contains 14 to 15 per cent of dry albumen, which in its turn contains some 4£ to 5 per cent of ash, ..."

5. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1894)
"Ordinarily, when we speak of milk albumen, we mean the portion of ... In other words, we apply the term albumen to the nitrogen compounds left after ..."

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