Definitions
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- adjective Composed of or resembling albumin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The albuminoids represent a class of albumins which, in contradistinction to the albumins proper, are essential components of the intercellular structures and result from the albumins, in the narrower sense of the term, through the activity of cellular elements. As a class they do not contain all the typical radicals of the pure albumins, and for this reason, nodoubt, their nutritive value is distinctly less than that of the albumins proper. They are largely found in the supporting tissues of the animal body, namely, the connective tissue, cartilage, and bone. The group comprises collagen (gelatin), elastin, spongm, fibroin, albumoid, etc. Also called
glutinoid . - Resembling albumen or albumin.
- noun A substance resembling albumin; proteid (which see).
- noun Also written
albumenoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Resembling albumin.
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- adjective of
albumin - adjective like
albumen - noun A simple
protein of a subclass mainly derived from animalconnective orsupportive tissue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a simple protein found in horny and cartilaginous tissues and in the lens of the eye
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is the same as the wheat gum and is called an albuminoid because it contains nitrogen and is like albumen, a substance like the white of an egg.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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Gelatin, a constituent of soup and obtained from bones and connective tissue by boiling, is the best known of the albuminoid foods.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The author has used the combustion method, the albuminoid ammonia, and in some cases the oxygen process of Prof. Tidy.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various
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Haemoxanthine: a dissolved albuminoid in the insect blood, which has both a respiratory and nutritive function.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The _albuminoid_ or _nitrogenous constituents_ will be seen to form about a sixth of the whole nib, or more than a fifth of the cocoa essence, and to their presence is due the fact that absolutely pure cocoa is such a remarkable flesh-former.
The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa Brandon Head
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The absorption of the silver into the system is slow, as the albuminoid and chlorine combinations formed in the intestinal canal cannot be immediately dissolved again.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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The albuminoid substance of milk; it forms the basis of cheese.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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An albuminoid substance contained in the flesh of animals, and also produced by the coagulation of blood.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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A general term for the albuminoid constitutents of the body.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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They pass into a fixed and immovable state, and mostly into one as enduring as adamant; while colloidal or albuminoid matter (laboratory protoplasm) takes on no fixed forms -- only those that are ephemeral, merely transitory.
Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright
hernesheir commented on the word albuminoid
Railway telegraphers' shorthand for "Have wired general freight agent". --US Railway Assn. Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 19, 2013