Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of becoming coagulated; capable of changing from a liquid to an inspissated state: as, coagulable lymph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being coagulated.
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- adjective That can be
coagulated .
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- adjective capable of coagulating and becoming thick
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Examples
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The coagulable proteins are concentrated inside its cells, so the cook must break the cells open by pounding the tissue, and then strain away the particles of connective tissue that hold the cells together.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The coagulable proteins are concentrated inside its cells, so the cook must break the cells open by pounding the tissue, and then strain away the particles of connective tissue that hold the cells together.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Low heats tend to produce much non-coagulable [v. 04 p. 0510] nitrogenous matter, which is undesirable in a stock beer, as it tends to produce fret and side fermentations.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It is, indeed, a true milk peptone -- that is, milk already partly digested, the coagulation of the coagulable portion being loose and flaky, and not of that firm indigestible nature which is the result of the action of the gastric juice upon cow's sweet milk.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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There were several cysts, and they appeared as though the inflammation attacked only the different lobes of the lungs, leaving others healthy between, -- Nature throwing out coagulable lymph around the diseased lobe, and forming thereby an air-tight cyst, cutting around the diseased lobe by suppuration, so that it could be carried off by absorption.
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Both had extensive anasarcous and other effusions, and both had coagulable urine.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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Normal urine is free from coagulable proteids, though it is admitted that albumen may sometimes occur in the absence of disease.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various
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The urinary secretion was all along scanty and high coloured; but, as the disease advanced, the quantity became exceedingly small, (almost none was voided for days together,) for which he was taking diuretics; and on examining it with the application of heat, I repeatedly found it coagulable.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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To mention examples, blood serum solidified at a suitable temperature is a highly suitable medium, and various media are made with extract of meat as a basis, with the addition of gelatine or agar as solidifying agents and of non-coagulable proteids (commercial "peptone") to make up for proteids lost by coagulation in the preparation.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The urine was small in quantity, of a bluish colour, and coagulable, irritability of stomach, and the bowels were obstinate and difficult to move, even with drastic purgatives.
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners Archibald Makellar
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