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Definition of Albumin

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

Definition of Albumin

1. n. 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 water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.

Definition of Albumin

1. Noun. (organic chemistry) A class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume. ¹

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Definition of Albumin

1. a simple protein [n -S]

Medical Definition of Albumin

1. 1. Any protein that is soluble in water and moderately concentrated salt solutions and is coagulable by heat. Found in egg whites, blood, lymph, and other tissues and fluids. 2. Serum albumin, the major plasma protein (approximately 60 per cent of the total), which is responsible for much of the plasma colloidal osmotic pressure and serves as a transport protein carrying large organic anions, such as fatty acids, bilirubin and many drugs and also carrying certain hormones, such as cortisol and thyroxine, when their specific binding globulins are saturated. Albumin is synthesised in the liver. Low serum levels occur in protein malnutrition, active inflammation and serious hepatic and renal disease. (31 Jan 2000)

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Literary usage of Albumin

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

1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"Serum-albumin belongs to the group of albumins, of rhich egg-albumin constitutes another member. Serum-albumin.—This substance is a typical protein. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Coagulated albumin is white, opaque, elastic, and reddens litmus ... When coagulated albumin is boiled in water for about 60 hours, it gradually disappears, ..."

3. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1908)
"hundred and twelve patients with constipation 44.6% showed urinary abnormalities and 14.3% both casts and albumin; in two hundred and eighty-six cases ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"If one studies this subject it is found that albumin bodies of endogenous origin which may occur in urine are numerous, including serum-albumin, ..."

5. American Druggist (1893)
"Deficiency in any of these respects is usually due to faulty manufacture or to the presence of mucus, albumin, peptone or inert animal tissue. ..."

6. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"If any other form of coagulated albumin (eg precipitated acid- or alkali-albumin, suspended in water and boiled) be treated in the same way, ..."

7. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1906)
"The acid-albumin of the whole albumin-molecule, and the acid-albumin prepared ... Acid-albumin is formed instantly, whenever a solution of an albumin is ..."

8. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"eign protein formed in disease, blood proteins (serum albumin, serum globulin, ... Serum albumin and serum globulin are usually associated in the urine; ..."

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