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Definition of Egg yolk
1. Noun. The yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen.
Definition of Egg yolk
1. Noun. The yellow central part of a chicken’s (or other bird’s) egg. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Egg yolk
1. The stored nutrient of the egg and the yellow portion of the egg of a bird. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Egg Yolk
Literary usage of Egg yolk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"In preparing the egg media about 1 ce of the egg-yolk suspension ... Eggs known
to be recently produced are preferable for the egg-yolk suspension, ..."
2. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1898)
"Yolk of Egg. The solids of egg-yolk consist chiefly of a mixture of pr ot eids,
together with a considerable proportion of fat. Other constituents are small ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"He affirms that the phosphorus of egg yolk is present as inorganic phosphates,
that the choline existe only as a degradation product of ..."
4. Food Inspection and Analysis: For the Use of Public Analysts, Health by Albert Ernest Leach, Andrew Lincoln Winton (1913)
"The Egg-yolk.—This is much more complex in composition than the white. Halliburton
thus enumerates the constituents of the yolk: (a) Proteins. ..."