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- Albuminous - a. - Alt. of Albuminose
- Albumenize - v. t. - To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.
- Parvolin - n. - A nonoxygenous ptomaine, formed in the putrefaction of albuminous matters, especially of horseflesh and mackerel.
- Proteolytic - a. - Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones.
- Protein - n. - A body now known as alkali albumin, but originally considered to be the basis of all albuminous substances, whence its name.
- Meroblast - n. - An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.
- Parapeptone - n. - An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
- Fibrin - n. - The white, albuminous mass remaining after washing lean beef or other meat with water until all coloring matter is removed; the fibrous portion of the muscle tissue; flesh fibrin.
- Myosin - n. - An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.
- Xanthoprotein - n. - A yellow acid substance formed by the action of hot nitric acid on albuminous or proteid matter. It is changed to a deep orange-yellow color by the addition of ammonia.
- Hemialbumose - n. - An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.
- Fibrin - n. - An albuminous body, resembling animal fibrin in composition, found in cereal grains and similar seeds; vegetable fibrin.
- Leucin - n. - A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance formed in the decomposition of albuminous matter by pancreatic digestion, by the action of boiling dilute sulphuric acid, and by putrefaction. It is also found as a constituent of various tissues and organs, as the spleen, pancreas, etc., and likewise in the vegetable kingdom. Chemically it is to be considered as amido-caproic acid.
- Fibrinoplastin - n. - An albuminous substance, existing in the blood, which in combination with fibrinogen forms fibrin; -- called also paraglobulin.
- Indol - n. - A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blue indigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.
- Putrefaction - n. - The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
- Globulin - n. - An albuminous body, insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute solutions of salt. It is present in the red blood corpuscles united with haematin to form haemoglobin. It is also found in the crystalline lens of the eye, and in blood serum, and is sometimes called crystallin. In the plural the word is applied to a group of proteid substances such as vitellin, myosin, fibrinogen, etc., all insoluble in water, but soluble in dilute salt solutions.
- Myochrome - n. - A colored albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin.
- Coagulum - a. - The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.
- Dyspeptone - n. - An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
- Paraglobulin - n. - An albuminous body in blood serum, belonging to the group of globulins. See Fibrinoplastin.
- Fibrinogen - n. - An albuminous substance existing in the blood, and in other animal fluids, which either alone or with fibrinoplastin or paraglobulin forms fibrin, and thus causes coagulation.
- Legumin - n. - An albuminous substance resembling casein, found as a characteristic ingredient of the seeds of leguminous and grain-bearing plants.
- Lapis lazuli - - An albuminous mineral of a rich blue color. Same as Lazuli, which see.
- Peptone - n. - Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.
- Skatol - n. - A constituent of human faeces formed in the small intestines as a product of the putrefaction of albuminous matter. It is also found in reduced indigo. Chemically it is methyl indol, C9H9N.