ALBUMEN
\ˈalbjuːmˌɛn], \ˈalbjuːmˌɛn], \ˈa_l_b_j_uː_m_ˌɛ_n]\
Definitions of ALBUMEN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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An immediate principle of animals and vegetables, which constitutes the chief part of the white of egg. It is found in the serum, chyle, synovia, serous fluids, &c. There is not much difference in chemical composition between animal and vegetable albumen, fibrin and casein. Also, the white of the eye. See Sclerotic.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin] Nourishing matter stored up between the embryo and integuments of the seed in many plants; -a thick viscous substance, which forms a constituent part of both animal fluids and solids, and which exists nearly pure in the white on an egg.
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