Album :: Album (n.) A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc..

Album :: Album (n.) A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

Album :: Album (n.) A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc..

Album Graecum :: Album Graecum () Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine..

Albumen :: Albumen (n.) The white of an egg.

Albumen :: Albumen (n.) 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..

Albumen :: Albumen (n.) Same as Albumin.

Albumenize :: Albumenize (v. t.) To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper..

Albumenized :: Albumenized (imp. & p. p.) of Albumeniz.

Albumenizing :: Albumenizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Albumeniz.

Albumin :: Albumin (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..

Albuminate :: Albuminate (n.) 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..

Albuminiferous :: Albuminiferous (a.) Supplying albumen.

Albuminimeter :: Albuminimeter (n.) An instrument for ascertaining the quantity of albumen in a liquid.

Albuminin :: Albuminin (n.) The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

Albuminiparous :: Albuminiparous (a.) Producing albumin.

Albuminoid :: Albuminoid (a.) Resembling albumin.

Albuminoid :: Albuminoid (n.) One of a class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues.

Albuminoidal :: Albuminoidal (a.) Of the nature of an albuminoid.

Albuminose :: Albuminose (n.) A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Albuminose :: Albuminose (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin..

Albuminous :: Albuminous (a.) Alt. of Albuminos.

Albuminuria :: Albuminuria (n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

Albumose :: Albumose (n.) A compound or class of compounds formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose..

Antialbumid :: Antialbumid (n.) A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.

Antialbumose :: Antialbumose (n.) See Albumose.

Exalbuminous :: Exalbuminous (a.) Having no albumen about the embryo; -- said of certain seeds.

Hemialbumin :: Hemialbumin (n.) Same as Hemialbumose.

Hemialbumose :: 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..

Metalbumin :: Metalbumin (n.) A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.

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